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 ...

Arkansas is considering the strictest book ban in the country, which would forbid all outside books, magazine and newspapers ...

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 ...

He's a poet, lawyer and MacArthur Genius Award-winner who served eight years in prison. Now, Reginald Dwayne Betts is building prison libraries. The first ever is here in Massachusetts, at the ...

CRANSTON – For 26 years, the walls of the Adult Correctional Institutions made for Steven Parkhurst’s home. Last week, Parkhurst returned to pay it forward, in a sense, to the men who helped shape him ...

What a suspect in the Cheshire home invasion and slayings read from a prison library before being released has become an issue in his trial. Now, one state senator is looking for information on state ...

Officials at an Illinois prison suspended an educational program for inmates, launched two internal investigations and removed 200 books from a prison library because many had “racial” content or ...

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