A proposed Arkansas Division of Correction policy prohibiting mailing books and other physical reading material to state ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A local author's book is on the brink of being banned permanently across prisons in Florida. "Corrections in Ink" is a memoir of a woman who carved out a new life for herself ...

When you hear snippets of Keri Blakinger’s story — white girl, Cornell student, busted with a huge amount of heroin, spends under two years in prison, gets out, graduates — you may say, “This is what ...

A prison book ban that was set to go into effect for Arkansas inmates on Feb. 1 will not happen for now, Arkansas Department of Corrections spokesman Rand Champion confirmed Friday.

Reached by phone from the Monroe Correctional Complex near Snohomish, 43-year-old Atif Rafay, a long-time inmate at the facility, tells the Inlander that access to reading materials has always been ...

A human rights organization is suing the Kentucky Department of Corrections for allegedly censoring books. The Human Rights Defense Center, a Florida based nonprofit which educates "prisoners and the ...

The policy comes more than a year after the Missouri Department of Corrections banned people from receiving paper mail in prison. People incarcerated in Missouri prisons will no longer be able to ...