James Tager, author of “Literature Locked Up,” will give a presentation about censorship practices in jails and prisons on ...

The American Library Association (ALA) welcomes the introduction of the Prison Libraries Act, bicameral legislation aimed at expanding access to library services and educational opportunities for ...

Reginald Dwayne Betts carjacked a man who was asleep in his car in a parking lot in Fairfax County, Virginia. Betts, who was 16 at the time, was tried as an adult and spent nearly a decade in state ...

Brotha Knowledge read constantly while in the Arkansas state prisons. Over his nearly three decades behind bars, he read nearly 3,000 books and built a personal library, stacking them in his cell ...

For more than 50 years, the Prison Book Program has been built on one simple idea: Everybody deserves the freedom to read. The Quincy-based nonprofit sends tens of thousands of free books each year to ...

A single book sparked reflection and conversation among incarcerated men at a Lexington prison book club. Maureen Pridgeon, who works at Noble Public Library, co-leads a monthly book club for ...

Maria Montalvo speaks with emotion, her eyes shining as she recounts her reading experiences. She says she especially enjoys books by Isabel Allende, Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison, Erika L. Sánchez ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Two New Mexico state prison inmates are suing the New Mexico Corrections Department, arguing that current policies amount to an unconstitutional ban on books and other reading ...

April isn’t just the start of spring—it’s a season of second chances.Across the country, more than 100,000 people are waiting for a life-saving transplant. And Arkansas DPS tops out new Arkansas ...

Friends of Libraries in Ghana (FOLIG),a non-governmental organization,dedicated to promoting literacy, improving access to educational resources, and strengthening library services in underserved ...

A single book sparked reflection and conversation among incarcerated men at a Lexington prison book club. Maureen Pridgeon, who works at Noble Public Library, co-leads a monthly book club for ...