Prison walls have contained some of history’s most creative minds. And while incarceration is meant to be punishment, it’s also given writers something pretty valuable: time. Lots and lots of time.

Jojo Sacks scanned brightly colored book spines inside a makeshift library, searching for what books best fulfilled an order. When nothing fit under Westerns, she moved to a shelf on the other side of ...

A ban on sending books and magazines to inmates in Arkansas prisons goes into effect Feb. 1, putting into place the strictest ...

For more than 50 years, the Prison Book Program has been built on one simple idea: Everybody deserves the freedom to read. The Quincy-based nonprofit sends tens of thousands of free books each year to ...

ARKANSAS, USA — A new policy within the Arkansas prison system will prohibit books, magazines, and other physical media from ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation maintains a list of books banned from circulation among the state’s 90,000 prisoners. The forbidden books include “The Handmaid’s Tale” by ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. At some point during her writing workshops, Jennifer Eli Bowen tells her students ...

Arkansas has introduced a policy banning the direct delivery of books, magazines, and other physical media to prison inmates.