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.

New restrictions on sending physical books, magazines and other reading materials to people incarcerated in Arkansas state ...

Arkansas prison officials say they are trying to stop drugs from entering state facilities. That is a serious aim. Synthetic ...

"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 ...

Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) said that the prison system is “creating monsters” after he was released from prison last week. “We are creating an environment of failure, so people are prone to ...