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 ...

The Prison Book Program has spent almost 50 years with one central mission: providing incarcerated people across the United States with free books from its headquarters in Quincy, Mass. “This program ...

PROGRAM IN TONIGHT’S 5 FOR GOOD. WE HAVE A BUNCH OF HARRY POTTER. REPORTER. IT’S AN EFFORT THAT STARTED IN CAMBRIDGE. THIS IS FANTASTIC. BACK IN 1972. DURING THOSE COUNTERCULTURE YEARS, A LOT OF THE ...

WOMEN START A NEW CHAPTER. THIS PERSON SAYS, SIMPLY PUT, READING IS MY MAIN COPING MECHANISM. VOICES OF GRIEF, ATTITUDE FROM THE INSIDE TO VOLUNTEERS ON THE OUTSIDE. IN MY OPINION, THERE ARE SOME OF ...

Tens of thousands of books have been banned or restricted in U.S. prisons, according to a new report by PEN America, a free speech organization that has been tracking book bans in the country. On ...

"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 ...

Volunteer Joyce Tanner selects books at the Prison Book Program in Quincy, Mass. It’s challenging for incarcerated people to access reading materials. In some prisons, libraries are not reliably open ...

No prison sentence begins the same, but they all become the same relentless struggle against disappearing. Almost 20 years after my release, prison still has not let me go. I return to prisons now ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. NEW YORK (AP) — Tens of thousands of books ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. "Reading opens you up to the world. And it makes the world so much smaller," the singer said Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at ...