Asheville shop Firestorm Books is suing South Carolina prisons over a policy that destroys books not from approved vendors.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The largest and most sweeping book ban in the United States isn’t in one of the country’s public school districts or library systems, but in prisons across the country. James Tager, ...

An Asheville bookstore sued South Carolina officials for rejecting books sent to inmates without any explanation.

SPARTANBURG — South Carolina inmates used to represent a large chunk of those receiving free publications from Asheville Prison Books, which sends hundreds of free titles most months to incarcerated ...

As the Texas Department of Criminal Justice prepares to institute a ban on the kinds of books that can be mailed to inmates in its custody, nonprofits that work to provide inmates with books face a ...

Brotha Knowledge read constantly while in the Arkansas state prisons. Over his nearly three decades behind bars, he read nearly 3,000 books and built a personal library, stacking them in his cell ...

A ban on sending books and magazines to inmates in Arkansas prisons goes into effect Feb. 1, putting into place the strictest regulations in the country on sending outside publications to the ...

ARKANSAS, USA — A state law has put a policy to ban physical media from being sent directly to Arkansas inmates in limbo, according to a spokesperson with the Arkansas Department of Corrections (DOC).

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 ...