“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 ...

When Pulitzer Prize-winning author Heather Ann Thompson sent a copy of her 2016 book “Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising and Its Legacy” to three people locked up in Illinois prisons, two ...

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 ...

Two of this year’s Social & Creator Lions jury members discuss what led to the unanimous selection of “Vaseline Verified” as the category’s Grand Prix winner.