Resources are scarce at most of the nation’s 900-plus prison libraries. State and local library systems—and individual librarians—carve out time and funding from operations budgets to meet significant ...

Jacquie Welsh was looking to undertake a project during her two-year residency at Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL), so she asked herself the question: “How can we innovate to make our libraries more ...

Almost 28 years ago, Lee and Dennis Horton were accused of a robbery and a murder in a Philadelphia bar. They were convicted and sent to prison. It was 1993. Bill Clinton was president. Sleepless in ...

Civil rights activist Malcolm X served time at a Massachusetts prison in the late 1940s, where he spent much of his time reading. A charity called Freedom Reads is now set to open its first prison ...

Poets Reginald Dwayne Betts and Randall Horton both discovered the transformative power of literature while incarcerated, and both have dedicated their lives since their release to bringing that power ...

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 ...

Thanks to Adrian Walker and the Globe for the good news about Reginald Dwayne Betts creating a library in what most likely was Malcolm X’s cell at MCI-Norfolk (“Bringing prisoners the freedom to dream ...

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