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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

KUNA, Idaho — About halfway through a Q&A after Anthony Doerr’s seminar at the Idaho State Correctional Institution last month, someone asked if it was the first time he’d spoken to a group of people ...

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 ...