A convicted child rapist, who in 2006 won a court case in U.S. District Court for the right to mail pornographic writings involving children from prison to other inmates, was recently caught with ...
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 ...
Amid protests for racial equality and police reform, many Americans have called for the dismantling of systemically racist structures within our society. For some, that work begins with defunding (or ...
“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 ...
He's a poet, lawyer and MacArthur Genius Award-winner who served eight years in prison. Now, Reginald Dwayne Betts is building prison libraries. The first ever is here in Massachusetts, at the ...
JOEY: BEHIND PRISON WALLS, THEER AREN’T MANY PLACES THAT FEEL LIKE A SAFE HAVEN. >> THAT’S HOW YOU GET OUT OF PRISON FOR THE DAY, BY PICKING UP A BOOK AND READING. JOEY: BUT FOR SCOTT SMITHO, SERVED A ...
Every morning, Anthony Arriaga, 47, serving his 21 st year for a murder conviction, is one of the first men to enter the Sullivan Correctional Facility’s Law Library after me. “What’s up, Lead Counsel ...
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