Big House Books hosts a Jackson, Mississippi panel at Lemuria Bookstore on promoting prison literacy, featuring community ...

Arkansas is considering the strictest book ban in the country, which would forbid all outside books, magazine and newspapers ...

"Accomplices to the Crime" is penologist Thomas O. Murton's 1969 nonfiction account of his efforts to reform the Arkansas prisons during the administration of Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller. The book ...

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 ...

The Arkansas Department of Corrections at a Sept. 2, 2025 meeting Credit: Brian Chilson A prison book ban that was set to go into effect for Arkansas inmates on Feb. 1 will not happen for now, ...

Prison reform can help many inmates prepare for life outside prison instead of just punishing them. The approach allows them to learn new skills and ways to cope with life's ups and downs. Reform can ...