A convicted child rapist, who in 2006 won a court case in U.S. District Court for the right to mail pornographic writings involving children from prison to other inmates, was recently caught with ...

Civil rights activist Malcolm X served time at a Massachusetts prison in the late 1940s, where he spent much of his time reading. A charity called Freedom Reads is now set to open its first prison ...

Amid protests for racial equality and police reform, many Americans have called for the dismantling of systemically racist structures within our society. For some, that work begins with defunding (or ...

Attorney Kosha Tucker looked across the particle-board table at the teen in the detention-center jumpsuit. He stared back in icy silence. “I would go visit him and he would refuse to speak to me,” ...

Poets Reginald Dwayne Betts and Randall Horton both discovered the transformative power of literature while incarcerated, and both have dedicated their lives since their release to bringing that power ...

Valerie Schultz works as a library technical assistant for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., I’m surprised at you. Didn’t your mother ...

RALEIGH, NC -- Cliff Missen is an advocate for prisoner education who has interacted with thousands of inmates, but he doesn't forget an inmate's first experiences at a prison book club. "Inmates show ...

Every morning, Anthony Arriaga, 47, serving his 21 st year for a murder conviction, is one of the first men to enter the Sullivan Correctional Facility’s Law Library after me. “What’s up, Lead Counsel ...

Guantánamo prison policy prohibits people from giving individual captives books. So Jacob gave “Ships” to the detention center library with a specific client in mind — forever prisoner Moath al Alwi, ...