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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A group of Maryland inmates will meet Monday with the author of this year’s “One Maryland, One Book” selection. Warren St. John, author of “Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...