America’s prisons and jails are information deserts. Restrictions—and in some cases, outright bans—on internet access, combined with limited library services and widespread censorship of both print and digital materials, severely restrict incarcerated individuals’ connection to the outside world. Legal information is no exception. Although access to legal information is a constitutionally mandated right, incarcerated people face significant—and often insurmountable—barriers to exercising that right–from limited access to legal materials and guidance on conducting legal research, to complex administrative procedures required to bring claims before a court. When people in prison are denied meaningful access to the courts, the harm extends beyond them—it undermines the integrity of the broader justice system by concealing wrongful convictions, enabling unconstitutional prison conditions, and allowing civil rights violations to go unchallenged.