When Tandy Cobb was a young girl growing up in Clarksville, Tenn., in the 1950s, her parents, who were avid readers, would regularly take her and her brother to the local library to check out books.

UNC alum Leigh Lassiter still remembers seeing a flyer for the Prison Books Collective on campus back in 2015. A few years later, Lassiter decided to reach out to the collective, and for the past five ...

For more than 50 years, the Prison Book Program has been built on one simple idea: Everybody deserves the freedom to read. The Quincy-based nonprofit sends tens of thousands of free books each year to ...

Maria Montalvo speaks with emotion, her eyes shining as she recounts her reading experiences. She says she especially enjoys books by Isabel Allende, Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison, Erika L. Sánchez ...

"I am very thankful for your program and organization doing this for us in our darkest time when everyone else has given up on us," Jaime, an individual incarcerated near Gainesville wrote. Little ...

It starts with a letter. A scanned copy of a handwritten letter, as per prison policy, typically conveys sincere gratitude followed by a list of requests. Some ask for thrilling mystery novels about ...

WOMEN START A NEW CHAPTER. THIS PERSON SAYS, SIMPLY PUT, READING IS MY MAIN COPING MECHANISM. VOICES OF GRIEF, ATTITUDE FROM THE INSIDE TO VOLUNTEERS ON THE OUTSIDE. IN MY OPINION, THERE ARE SOME OF ...

Claremont’s Prison Library Project, which sends books to incarcerated people around the nation, recently announced it received more than 10,400 letters requesting books and educational materials and ...