Prisoners reported being denied access to books sent by family or friends, when the prison's education funding has been cut ...

Today, that memory is Harris’s lifeline. In 1997, she was sentenced to fifty years in prison for killing her abusive partner. Now fifty-two, she has served the past eight years in solitary confinement ...

Dylan Jeffrey is an avid reader incarcerated in New Mexico. Once a week, only 10 incarcerated people are able to visit the prison library, a closet-sized collection of books that tend to be outdated ...

The Barnstable County jail has long had a library, as is typical at correctional facilities in Massachusetts. But Barnstable's book collection fell into neglect during the pandemic, when the jail lost ...

“There’s been very little information available about prison libraries, just in general,” says Charissa Brammer, director of Library Research Service with the Colorado State Library, housed within the ...