JOEY: BEHIND PRISON WALLS, THEER AREN’T MANY PLACES THAT FEEL LIKE A SAFE HAVEN. >> THAT’S HOW YOU GET OUT OF PRISON FOR THE DAY, BY PICKING UP A BOOK AND READING. JOEY: BUT FOR SCOTT SMITHO, SERVED A ...

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 ...

Civil rights activist Malcolm X served time at a Massachusetts prison in the late 1940s, where he spent much of his time reading. A charity called Freedom Reads is now set to open its first prison ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What a suspect in the Cheshire home invasion and slayings read from a prison library before being released has become an issue in his trial. Now, one state senator is looking for information on state ...

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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