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LANDIS, N.C. – A man recently released from serving a 19-year prison sentence for 2nd degree murder is facing a charge for allegedly exposing himself to a female at a Rowan County public library. The ...
“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 ...
Dylan Jeffrey is an avid reader incarcerated in New Mexico. Once a week, only 10 incarcerated people are able to visit the prison library, a closet-sized collection of books that tend to be outdated ...
Every morning, Anthony Arriaga, 47, serving his 21 st year for a murder conviction, is one of the first men to enter the Sullivan Correctional Facility’s Law Library after me. “What’s up, Lead Counsel ...
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 ...
Poets Reginald Dwayne Betts and Randall Horton both discovered the transformative power of literature while incarcerated, and both have dedicated their lives since their release to bringing that power ...