Arkansas is considering the strictest book ban in the country, which would forbid all outside books, magazine and newspapers ...

In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn how to request records, clean up data and shed light on carceral book bans.

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 ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice will no longer allow books with hard covers in an effort to prevent drugs from ...

PROGRAM IN TONIGHT’S 5 FOR GOOD. WE HAVE A BUNCH OF HARRY POTTER. REPORTER. IT’S AN EFFORT THAT STARTED IN CAMBRIDGE. THIS IS FANTASTIC. BACK IN 1972. DURING THOSE COUNTERCULTURE YEARS, A LOT OF THE ...

"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 ...

Volunteer Joyce Tanner selects books at the Prison Book Program in Quincy, Mass. It’s challenging for incarcerated people to access reading materials. In some prisons, libraries are not reliably open ...

When Tandy Cobb was a young girl growing up in Clarksville, Tenn., in the 1950s, her parents, who were avid readers, would regularly take her and her brother to the local library to check out books.

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. "Reading opens you up to the world. And it makes the world so much smaller," the singer said Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at ...