Uzbekistan has approved a law that allows prisoners to reduce their jail sentences by up to 30 days per year, by reading ...

"I am very thankful for your program and organization doing this for us in our darkest time when everyone else has given up on us," Jaime, an individual incarcerated near Gainesville wrote. Little ...

VALPARAISO -- Nine-year-old Casey Boesch watched as her father, Terry Boesch, collected more than 25,000 books from churches, libraries and schools and donated them to the impoverished European ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) – For people behind bars in six Appalachian states, they are one of the few forms of escape _ hundreds of used books, wrapped in brown paper and stacked thigh-high under a table ...

URBANA, Ill. (WCIA) — Thousands of books will be on sale for just $1 or $2 each. UC Books to Prisoners is hoping to raise money to keep sending books to inmates throughout the state like they have for ...

Federal judge allows inmate to challenge prison's confiscation of allegedly dangerous book Judge Nina Wang found no credible constitutional violation, but agreed there were sufficient allegations the ...

Orange paste kids use to color pictures contained opiate substitute. March 30, 2011 -- Inmates at a New Jersey jail received contraband drugs hidden in paste used to color pages of children's coloring ...

She decided not to send any books home with her son, she said, because he has so many at home. Katrina Race, another inmate, said Dec. 9 her 6-year-old son lives in New York state, so he only visits ...

The former officer, the former inmate and the former inmate’s brother are accused of sneaking books with drug-laced pages into SC prisons.

Inmates at the Miami Correctional Facility are part of a program that allows them to make pillows for children in need.