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 ...

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 ...

Friends of Libraries in Ghana (FOLIG),a non-governmental organization,dedicated to promoting literacy, improving access to educational resources, and strengthening library services in underserved ...

“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 ...

Behind the walls of the Melbourne Remand Centre in Ravenhall, 700 of the state’s most dangerous criminals patiently wait to be the next in line to borrow some of the prison library’s most popular ...