Newspaper articles and caricatures hang on the wall. On the bookshelf is the Duden dictionary next to the penal code. On the tables: Computers, newspapers and coffee cups. At first glance, it looks as ...

In the same week, I received two separate letters from two Texas prisoners in different prisons complaining about the same matter. They were not proclaiming their innocence and asking for a detailed ...

Invoking Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” an appellate court brushed aside First Amendment concerns and sided with the Florida Department of Corrections in a long-running dispute about a ...

I wrote a story in October about another awful American company ripping people off. Usually, nothing much happens. But not this time. They ran a magazine subscription service for prisoners. Inmate ...

ANGOLA, La. (AP) - Gov. John Bel Edwards has ordered free from prison the inmate editor of the award-winning magazine produced at the State Penitentiary at Angola. Kerry Myers received a mandatory ...

The NC Department of Public Safety faces a federal lawsuit alleging its staff frequently censors magazines that inmates receive in the mail, especially those that have articles about prison misconduct ...

He scammed his way out of business. The owner of a company that sold magazines to thousands of prisoners and their loved ones but never delivered has been barred from ever selling or marketing ...

PHOENIX — A national monthly magazine for and about prison inmates is accusing the state Department of Corrections of censorship. The lawsuit filed in federal court contends top agency officials ...

FEDERAL COURTS UNDERSTAND the First Amendment ban on establishing religion to mean that government may not prefer one religion, or sect, over another. Why then has New York state, in treating the ...

A Florida-based publisher of a magazine written by inmates lost a federal appeal of a freedom of speech case against the Florida Department of Corrections, which has barred the magazine from state ...

When he was a teenager, Lawrence Bartley was convicted for second-degree murder after a deadly gunfight in a movie theater that left a 15-year-old boy dead. Free on parole after 27 years and now at ...

TALLAHASSEE — Invoking Oscar Wilde, an appellate court brushed aside First Amendment concerns and sided with the Florida Department of Corrections in a long-running dispute about a monthly magazine ...