She decided not to send any books home with her son, she said, because he has so many at home. Katrina Race, another inmate, said Dec. 9 her 6-year-old son lives in New York state, so he only visits ...

Starting Feb. 1, inmates in Arkansas prisons will no longer be allowed to receive books or magazines from outside sources, ...

"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 ...

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 ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Advocates for Maryland’s prisoners are pressing the mid-Atlantic state to scrap “senseless and harsh” regulations they say restrict the ability of inmates to access books and violates ...

He conspired with inmates at several prisons to mail books to them containing hidden Suboxone strips, prosecutors said. Getty Images/iStockphoto A Phoenix man tricked bookstores into mailing books ...

Albert Jones’s 11 books describe life in prison. His victims’ relatives say his family should not benefit from a sale of his story. By Corey Kilgannon The 65th Annual New York International ...

This article, written by Rafael Ciscati, was originally published on the Brasil de Direitos website on July 3, 2025. An edited version is republished on Global Voices under a partnership agreement. It ...