Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inmates use the library at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, Calif., on June 20, 2018. Correctional Service Canada is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The American Library Association (ALA) is backing new federal legislation to expand access to education, literacy, and workforce ...

The American Library Association (ALA) welcomes the introduction of the Prison Libraries Act, bicameral legislation aimed at expanding access to library services and educational opportunities for ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

2007—A Ninth Circuit panel rules (in Phillips v. Hust) that a prison librarian violated the constitutional rights of a prisoner, and is liable for damages to him, for failing to provide him timely ...

The Ghana Library Authority has donated books and reading materials to inmate students at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison as part of efforts to promote literacy and education within the correctional ...

Brotha Knowledge read constantly while in the Arkansas state prisons. Over his nearly three decades behind bars, he read nearly 3,000 books and built a personal library, stacking them in his cell ...

Correctional Service Canada is finalizing plans to cut all prison librarian positions at federal institutions, in a move that advocates say violates human rights and will actively harm efforts to ...