Prison Libraries

Children's Corner: 'Dead End in Norvelt' led Jack Gantos to Newbery gold

6 Feb 2012

Jack Gantos kept his hopes for winning a Newbery Medal -- given annually by the American Library Association to the best-written children's book -- in "lockdown mode" over the past few months. Mr. Gantos, 60, had come close to winning the gold Newbery Medal in 2001 for "Joey Pigza Loses Control."

Co-defendant in ETX capital murder case sentenced to 99 years

3 Feb 2012

A co-defendant in a gruesome East Texas capital murder case was sentenced to 99 years in prison Friday.

Bits of Holmesburg Prison's history preserved for Moore College exhibit

2 Feb 2012

When Spanish artists María Jesús González and Patricia Gómez finally were allowed to enter empty Holmesburg Prison in October to detach and preserve the surfaces of its walls, they found they were lacking the one thing the prison's former inhabitants had had plenty of.