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 ...

House Bill 900, also known as the READER Act, was passed by the Texas Legislature in 2023 to regulate the library materials sold to or included in public school libraries, including any content ...

“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 ...

BENTONVILLE -- Benton County jailers took almost all the reading material away from the inmates last fall because some of them were destroying the books, according to a sheriff's office official. "As ...

BENTONVILLE -- Benton County Sheriff Shawn Holloway is asking the public to replace inmates' books six months after confiscating almost all the reading material in the jail. The book drive, announced ...

NEW YORK — People who want to send a copy of jailhouse classics like "The Shawshank Redemption" to a loved in a New York prison may soon be out of luck. A new policy, rolled out last month to help ...

A Mississippi nonprofit is helping bring education to people behind bars one book at a time. Big House Books relies on ...

For the first time, detainees picked their own winner in an offshoot of the Goncourt, France’s top literary honor. Mathilde, in her cell. Participating in the ...

BENTONVILLE -- Benton County Sheriff Shawn Holloway is asking the public to replace inmates' books six months after confiscating almost all the reading material in the jail. The book drive, announced ...