MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) – For people behind bars in six Appalachian states, they are one of the few forms of escape _ hundreds of used books, wrapped in brown paper and stacked thigh-high under a table ...

"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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Volunteers collecting books for the Luzerne County Correctional Facility have amassed more than ...

Federal judge allows inmate to challenge prison's confiscation of allegedly dangerous book Judge Nina Wang found no credible constitutional violation, but agreed there were sufficient allegations the ...

Nearly 30 volunteers turned out to the Ascend WV headquarters Wednesday evening to wrap books for incarcerated individuals across Appalachia as part of the […] ...

CHICAGO (AP) — For college senior Nana Ampofo, an unconventional book club inside one of the nation’s largest jails has transformed her career ambitions. Each week, the 22-year-old drives a van of her ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has banned yet another book in its prisons. Except this time, it was written by inmates themselves. TEXAS LETTERS, an ongoing anthology of letters ...

The only libraries at the Lew Sterrett Justice Center are law libraries. Inmates crowd in the rooms on a weekday, buried in legal books, as if they’re in law school. And in a sense they are. People ...

This article, written by Rafael Ciscati, was originally published on the Brasil de Direitos website on July 3, 2025. An edited version is republished on Global Voices under a partnership agreement. It ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO (AP) — For college senior Nana ...