Books about Black and Indigenous people, Latinos and the LGBTQ community are often banned in prisons, but prohibited titles vary widely from state to state, studies show, cutting off a lifeline for ...

“This will be my last request since I’ll be released on May 30,” a pinned-up sheet of notebook paper reads at Pensacola’s Open Books Bookstore. The words are scribbled in pencil, but written in all ...

There is no better way to while away five-to-life than with a good book. Gandhi in his autobiography wrote that he did his best studying in the pokey. It's no surprise that books are a big deal in the ...

"I am very thankful for your program and organization doing this for us in our darkest time when everyone else has given up on us," Jaime, an individual incarcerated near Gainesville wrote. Little ...

Many children buy flowers or take their moms out to dinner for Mother’s Day, but the idea is to spend time with the women who raised them. Certain parents don’t get to enjoy those holidays. Families ...

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(CN) - A prisoner in Indiana was not deprived of his constitutional rights when prison officials denied him access to books about anarchy, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled. Eric Smith, an inmate at ...

Dwayne Betts had a familiar feeling when he visited a pair of Chesapeake prisons last week. A corrections officer dropped some slang — referring to the books Betts was bringing for the inmates as ...

A federal judge has tossed out a lawsuit filed by a Terrebonne Parish jail inmate alleging his constitutional rights were violated when he was denied books at the jail. Inmate James Robert Pitre, 42, ...

Rikers Island inmates are looking for guards in all the wrong places. A desperate inmate stole an official log book over the weekend and instead of it being filled with a correction officer’s shift ...

Federal judge allows inmate to challenge prison's confiscation of allegedly dangerous book Judge Nina Wang found no credible constitutional violation, but agreed there were sufficient allegations the ...