The 80-year-old woman has maintained correspondence with nearly 30 individuals affected by incarceration since the 1990s.

Prisoners in Tennessee will soon be able to receive free books again. Last year, the Tennessee Department of Correction made ...

Prison officials say racial books disrupt social order and contribute to an unsafe prison environment. But Bryan points out: “In California prisons you can read ‘Mein Kampf’ by Hitler, ...

But it’s worth remembering the power and long-lasting impact books can have. Prison Reading Groups, part of the charity Give a Book, were first piloted in 1999 at HMP Coldingley in Woking and at HMP ...

The book is far more chilling than any of the fictional ... But one part consisted of a brutal simulation of what Wynne could expect in a Soviet prison if he was captured, and as it happened ...

the more fascinated I became,” says Robin Bernstein of the person and institution at the center of her new book, “Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for ...