This article is part of Prison Banned Books Week, a campaign that aims to raise awareness of prison censorship. When tablets were first introduced in correctional facilities over a decade ago, ...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — A proposed Arkansas Division of Correction policy prohibiting mailing books and other physical reading material to state inmates was originally intended to go into effect ...
WOMEN START A NEW CHAPTER. THIS PERSON SAYS, SIMPLY PUT, READING IS MY MAIN COPING MECHANISM. VOICES OF GRIEF, ATTITUDE FROM THE INSIDE TO VOLUNTEERS ON THE OUTSIDE. IN MY OPINION, THERE ARE SOME OF ...
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 ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The largest and most sweeping book ban in the United States isn’t in one of the country’s public school districts or library systems, but in prisons across the country. James Tager, ...
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 ...
"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 ...
UNC alum Leigh Lassiter still remembers seeing a flyer for the Prison Books Collective on campus back in 2015. A few years later, Lassiter decided to reach out to the collective, and for the past five ...
OLYMPIA, Wash. — For more than 50 years, the state has operated libraries inside state prisons, relying mostly on federal grant funding. That funding, $3.9 million, could be cut by the Trump ...