Books about Black and Indigenous people, Latinos and the LGBTQ community are often banned in prisons, but prohibited titles vary widely from state to state, studies show, cutting off a lifeline for ...

“This will be my last request since I’ll be released on May 30,” a pinned-up sheet of notebook paper reads at Pensacola’s Open Books Bookstore. The words are scribbled in pencil, but written in all ...

BENTONVILLE -- Benton County jailers took almost all the reading material away from the inmates last fall because some of them were destroying the books, according to a sheriff's office official. "As ...

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 ...

BENTONVILLE -- Benton County Sheriff Shawn Holloway is asking the public to replace inmates' books six months after confiscating almost all the reading material in the jail. The book drive, announced ...

(CN) - A prisoner in Indiana was not deprived of his constitutional rights when prison officials denied him access to books about anarchy, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled. Eric Smith, an inmate at ...

McLEAN, Va. AP – The federal government’s most secure prison has determined that two books written by President Barack Obama contain material “potentially detrimental to national security” and ...

A federal judge has tossed out a lawsuit filed by a Terrebonne Parish jail inmate alleging his constitutional rights were violated when he was denied books at the jail. Inmate James Robert Pitre, 42, ...

Rikers Island inmates are looking for guards in all the wrong places. A desperate inmate stole an official log book over the weekend and instead of it being filled with a correction officer’s shift ...

BENTONVILLE -- Benton County Sheriff Shawn Holloway is asking the public to replace inmates' books six months after confiscating almost all the reading material in the jail. The book drive, announced ...