Volunteer Joyce Tanner selects books at the Prison Book Program in Quincy, Mass. It’s challenging for incarcerated people to access reading materials. In some prisons, libraries are not reliably open ...
When Tandy Cobb was a young girl growing up in Clarksville, Tenn., in the 1950s, her parents, who were avid readers, would regularly take her and her brother to the local library to check out books.