Gabfest Reads is a monthly series from the hosts of Slate’s Political Gabfest podcast. Recently, Emily Bazelon talked with Judith Resnik about her new book, Impermissible Punishments: How Prison ...

The policy will prohibit books, magazines, and other physical media from being sent directly to inmates.

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 ...

Jojo Sacks scanned brightly colored book spines inside a makeshift library, searching for what books best fulfilled an order. When nothing fit under Westerns, she moved to a shelf on the other side of ...

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 California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation maintains a list of books banned from circulation among the state’s 90,000 prisoners. The forbidden books include “The Handmaid’s Tale” by ...

Arkansas prison officials say they are trying to stop drugs from entering state facilities. That is a serious aim. Synthetic cannabinoids are dangerous. Overdoses are real. Staff safety matters.