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 ...

Brotha Knowledge read constantly while in the Arkansas state prisons. Over his nearly three decades behind bars, he read nearly 3,000 books and built a personal library, stacking them in his cell ...

"I am very thankful for your program and organization doing this for us in our darkest time when everyone else has given up on us," Jaime, an individual incarcerated near Gainesville wrote. Little ...

UNC alum Leigh Lassiter still remembers seeing a flyer for the Prison Books Collective on campus back in 2015. A few years later, Lassiter decided to reach out to the collective, and for the past five ...

It starts with a letter. A scanned copy of a handwritten letter, as per prison policy, typically conveys sincere gratitude followed by a list of requests. Some ask for thrilling mystery novels about ...

When Pulitzer Prize-winning author Heather Ann Thompson sent a copy of her 2016 book “Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising and Its Legacy” to three people locked up in Illinois prisons, two ...

When Kenny McPherson read a picture book to his 4-year-old son recently, it was a story time weeks in the making. McPherson, who is incarcerated at the Penitentiary of New Mexico, participates in the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The largest and most sweeping book ban in the United States isn’t in one of the country’s public school districts or library systems, but in prisons across the country. James Tager, ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — A proposed Arkansas Division of Correction policy prohibiting mailing books and other physical reading material to state inmates was originally intended to go into effect ...