Put yourself inside a 6-by-8-foot prison cell, no window, bare concrete walls. A concrete slab juts out from the wall with a mattress to lay on. There’s a creaky desk and chair and, in the corner, a ...

To hide the cell-wall holes, they fashioned fake papier-mâché grills from prison library magazines. Once they were in their workshop, they set about constructing a 6x14ft makeshift rubber raft ...

The library has been so helpful for all my studies," Staszewski said. "I'm taking some college classes." He said he knows fellow offenders who learned how to read at the prison library.