The American Library Association (ALA) welcomes the introduction of the Prison Libraries Act, bicameral legislation aimed at expanding access to library services and educational opportunities for ...

A new federal bill in Congress is aimed at improving prison libraries across the nation, while also helping prepare incarcerated people for their eventual release. The Prison Libraries Act, introduced ...

“There’s been very little information available about prison libraries, just in general,” says Charissa Brammer, director of Library Research Service with the Colorado State Library, housed within the ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — For more than 50 years, the state has operated libraries inside state prisons, relying mostly on federal grant funding. That funding, $3.9 million, could be cut by the Trump ...

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 ...

Diddy's prison intake photo has surfaced, along with news that he has taken up a gig in the prison's chapel library. On Monday (Nov. 10), CBS News shared the latest pic of Diddy, which was taken at ...

Story Highlights • Pamela Withrow, the first woman to lead a men’s prison in Michigan, will speak at 11 a.m. Saturday at the ...