In a maximum-security facility in upstate New York, students tackled Samuel Richardson’s “Clarissa” and Tolstoy’s “War and ...

In a world where overthinking drowns us in endless noise, true courage lies in finding peace and choosing to live beyond the ...

John J. Lennon, imprisoned for a brutal 2001 murder, is now a published writer in The New Yorker and The New York Times. Will ...

IT WAS the moment Shavoughne Firth had been waiting for – finally her abuser had been caught in the act. But as the relief ...

Alan G. Hassenfeld, a renowned philanthropist and former CEO of iconic toy company Hasbro Inc., the maker of G.I. Joe and Play-Doh, has died.

I grew up in poverty, with a father in and out of prison, a mother addicted to heroin, and my cousins caught up in gangs.

Winfield Ward Murray provides Burruss Correctional Training Center inmates with access to higher education as part of a ...

I’ve never met my aunt Carol, but I’ve loved her—and missed her—my whole life. Especially when I remember that the last man ...

Accessing reading material in prisons is hard, but Freedom Reads co-founder Reginald Betts, a former inmate, went beyond ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with "The Jailhouse Lawyer" authors Calvin Duncan and Sophie Cull. It's a memoir about Duncan's life as a wrongly incarcerated inmate and his efforts to exonerate himself.

Liberatore is the epitome of not judging a book by its cover, which is part of the reason he made a profound impact inside ...