Valerie Schultz works as a library technical assistant for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., I’m surprised at you. Didn’t your mother ...

Last week, officials at the American Civil Liberties Union made public a letter they had written to the New Jersey Department of Corrections, accusing the department of violating inmates’ rights: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Attorney Kosha Tucker looked across the particle-board table at the teen in the detention-center jumpsuit. He stared back in icy silence. “I would go visit him and he would refuse to speak to me,” ...

Guantánamo prison policy prohibits people from giving individual captives books. So Jacob gave “Ships” to the detention center library with a specific client in mind — forever prisoner Moath al Alwi, ...

At East Jersey State Prison, inmates can access the law library to learn about how to file appeals. At East Jersey State Prison, a medium security prison, inmates can access the law library to learn ...