The policy will prohibit books, magazines, and other physical media from being sent directly to inmates.

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 ...

New restrictions on sending physical books, magazines and other reading materials to people incarcerated in Arkansas state ...

Gabfest Reads is a monthly series from the hosts of Slate’s Political Gabfest podcast. Recently, Emily Bazelon talked with Judith Resnik about her new book, Impermissible Punishments: How Prison ...

Arkansas has a new policy that bans books and other forms of physical media from being sent directly to prison inmates.

A former president convicted of plotting a coup is now eligible to shorten his prison sentence in Brazil by reading books.

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 ...

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