Due to a 2024 policy change by the state, nonprofits that have sent free books to prisoners for over 50 years can’t serve ...

Asif Merchant, 46, has been holed up in solitary confinement at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park ever since ...

Portions of an Arkansas law that would have subjected librarians to criminal charges for letting kids check out books deemed ...

Eastman knows firsthand how important books and reading were to their ability to learn and grow and to connect with her and the outside world. Experts say the recidivism rate for prisoners with access ...

In addition to being the co-host of Today‘s fourth hour, Today with Hoda and Jenna (soon to be Today with Jenna and Friends), ...

Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed Act 372 in March 2023. A few months later, U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks temporarily blocked implementation of Sections 1 and 5 of the law—and on ...

Portions of an Arkansas law that would have subjected librarians to criminal charges for letting kids check out books deemed "harmful ... punishable by up to a year in jail. In June 2023, a ...

A Reading man will spend 80 to 160 years in state prison for shooting at four law enforcement officers attempting to serve a search warrant on his Bingaman Street home in 2020. Joshua Perez ...

Salt Lake County residents used their free library cards to check out more than 12.5 million items from the county library in ...

The law, which threatened imprisonment if librarians or booksellers provided “harmful” content to minors, violates the First ...