Reginald Dwayne Betts was locked up as a teenager for carjacking. Books were his escape, and he went on to be a poet, lawyer ...

Studies have overwhelmingly shown that people who become more educated while incarcerated are less likely to return to prison ...

The Maine Humanities Council works with nearly a dozen incarcerated people in state prisons to run regular book groups, ...

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 ...

In Connecticut, formerly incarcerated people are building bookshelves and filling them with books for donation to prisons. They say reading helped them get through their own sentences.

According to The Sentencing Project, between 1980 and 2022, the number of incarcerated women in the U.S. increased by more ...

Justine Igo, a former inmate, is the first resident of Pete & Andy’s transitional home in Rhode Island, a program for women at risk of homelessness after prison. The home, a collaboration between St.