A convicted child rapist, who in 2006 won a court case in U.S. District Court for the right to mail pornographic writings involving children from prison to other inmates, was recently caught with ...

He's a poet, lawyer and MacArthur Genius Award-winner who served eight years in prison. Now, Reginald Dwayne Betts is building prison libraries. The first ever is here in Massachusetts, at the ...

Every morning, Anthony Arriaga, 47, serving his 21 st year for a murder conviction, is one of the first men to enter the Sullivan Correctional Facility’s Law Library after me. “What’s up, Lead Counsel ...

In prison, education was Bobby Bostic’s north star. He frequented the prison library, where he’d also catch up on local happenings in the newspaper. One morning about a decade ago, an article about a ...

Officials at an Illinois prison suspended an educational program for inmates, launched two internal investigations and removed 200 books from a prison library because many had “racial” content or ...

Valerie Schultz works as a library technical assistant for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., I’m surprised at you. Didn’t your mother ...

The Arizona Department of Corrections has released video of a hostage situation between an inmate and employee inside a Buckeye prison library. The incident took place December 26 when a ...

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In the 1800s, many states in the Union adopted laws that prohibited teaching African American slaves how to read and write. Thirty lashes or even death would be the punishment for blacks who learned ...