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 ...

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 ...

Prisoner advocates say literacy and rehabilitation among inmates would suffer if Correctional Service Canada (CSC) cuts prison librarian positions in an effort to save money. The citizen advisory ...

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 ...

When Avi Steinberg became a prison librarian, he thought his job would be to keep track of the books. Then he started reading between the lines.... Prison Librarian GLYNN WASHINGTON, HOST: We're going ...

HMP Edinburgh’s triumph at the Nibbies underscored the excellent and essential work of prison libraries – but the sector still faces considerable challenges. One story that had lots of traction coming ...

“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 ...