Correctional Service Canada is finalizing plans to cut all prison librarian positions at federal institutions, in a move that advocates say violates human rights and will actively harm efforts to ...

Prisoner advocates say literacy and rehabilitation among inmates would suffer if Correctional Service Canada (CSC) cuts prison librarian positions in an effort to save money. The citizen advisory ...

The American Library Association (ALA) is backing new federal legislation to expand access to education, literacy, and workforce preparation in U.S. prisons. According to a press release issued ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — For more than 50 years, the state has operated libraries inside state prisons, relying mostly on federal grant funding. That funding, $3.9 million, could be cut by the Trump ...

Some prison libraries are able to acquire newer titles and broaden their selections; others are stocked mostly with out-of-date and damaged books. But most important, he said, readers in the outside ...

HMP Edinburgh’s triumph at the Nibbies underscored the excellent and essential work of prison libraries – but the sector still faces considerable challenges. One story that had lots of traction coming ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inmates use the library at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, Calif., on June 20, 2018. Correctional Service Canada is ...