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

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 ...

Notes from a Sovient Prison CONTACT ON GORKY STREET by Greville Wynne. 222 pages. Afheneum. $4.95. From 1960 until his arrest by the KGB in 1962, Colonel Oleg Penkovsky of Soviet military ...

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