Over the next six months, inmates in prisons around the country will be able to debate and vote on the winner of a new book award — the Inside Literary Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-12-04 10:01:30 UTC ]
Facing public criticism over a ban on sending free books to prison inmates, the Washington Department of Corrections has backed down and partially rescinded the ban. Advocates for prison inmates call the new policy "insufficient" and continue to negotiate with DOC officials. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The old entertainment industry adage “the show must go on” might as well be the motto of L.A. Theatre Works, which has grown from a small theater group doing workshops with prison inmates to a vast company that produces an array of audio projects Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dickens or Denisovich? Mailer or Malamud? This professor agonized over the reading list for a class of prison inmates. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]