She ended up forming a bond with him because both were saved by reading and the power of books. In the seven-page letter, the inmate wrote about his thoughts about her book, explained the ...

Amanda Hari reports on a Berkeley nonprofit that sends free books to prisoners who request reading materials. Indiana teen earns 'Young Patriot' award for refusing to remove flag from truck ...

Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor. By Jennifer Krauss Like Max and Madeline, this boy and girl keep faith with ...

Jennifer Szalai, Dwight Garner and Alexandra Jacobs look back at the books that “offered refuge from the wheels grinding in our heads.” In “A Century of Tomorrows,” Glenn Adamson offers a ...

Mysuru’s favorite and largest circulated English evening daily has kept the citizens of Mysuru informed and entertained since 1978. Over the past 45 years, Star of Mysore has been the newspaper that ...

WASHINGTON − President Joe Biden said he was commuting the sentences of nearly every inmate on federal death row, a move meant to stop President-elect Donald Trump from restarting stalled ...

President Biden gave commutations of sentences to 37 people on federal death row Monday. Those who received the Monday commutations of their sentences saw them go from execution to life with no ...

The suit against the state of Louisiana follows a multiyear investigation into what federal officials say is a pattern of “systemic overdetention” that violates inmates’ rights and costs ...

The move reduces sentences for all but three of 40 inmates on federal death row. President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 inmates on federal death row, the White House said Monday.

Prisoners learn of the Fathers As Readers program ... Program staff also seek permission from family members who will receive the books on the outside. Once all of that is complete, participants ...

The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against the state of Louisiana and its corrections department for unlawfully imprisoning thousands of people for weeks and months after their sentences ...