The Arkansas Department of Corrections is set to ban all physical books, magazines and newspapers sent directly to inmates — a restriction, pushed as a drug-fighting measure, that would be the ...

By BILL YEE In the digital age I mourn the loss of books, magazines, and newspapers. Books are still around. But many people now read books using their Kindle or iPad. There’s nothing like falling ...

The Dallas County jail has "a near-total ban" on printed literature, violating a 2007 federal consent decree where they agreed Prison Legal News publications were permitted mail, the outlet alleges.

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 ...

Every year, the government spends tens of billions of dollars teaching and encouraging children to read in school, from kindergarten to senior year. The societal consensus is that reading is good and ...

Two criminal justice reform organizations are circulating a petition that calls on the Arkansas Board of Corrections to reverse its ban on physical books, magazines and newspapers beginning Feb. 1.

Laurie Hertzel remembers the old building on Portland Avenue in downtown Minneapolis and the space it had carved out just for books. At the time, she was the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s books editor, a ...