The number of people incarcerated across the United States reached two million in 2002. That number has increased since then, and the U.S. holds the highest inc

'Illiterate Inmates' tells the story of the emergence, at the turn of the nineteenth century, of a powerful idea - the provision of education in prisons for tho

People in U.S. prisons are routinely subjected to physical, sexual, and mental abuse. While this has been documented in male prisons, women in prison often suff