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Prison Book Program is an American non-profit organization that sends free books to people in prison. [1] [2] While the organization is based in Massachusetts, it mails packages of books to people in prisons in 45 U.S. states, as well as Puerto Rico and Guam. [3]
These included Seattle's Books to Prisoners, Boston's Prison Book Program, and the Prison Library Project which was founded in Durham, North Carolina but relocated to Claremont, California in 1986. Since then, dozens of prison book programs have been established, although many have had short life-spans.
Women's Prison Book Project was founded in 1994 in Minneapolis, [7] and incorporated as a nonprofit in Minnesota in 2000. [8] The organization was initially located in the basement of a volunteer. Since then, it has been located at several places in Minneapolis, including Arise Bookstore, [ 9 ] Boneshaker Books, [ 10 ] [ 11 ] SOCO Commons, and ...
Tens of thousands of books have been banned or restricted in U.S. prisons, according to a report by PEN America, a free speech organization that has been tracking book bans in the country. On ...
From colouring books to abolition newspapers and Reader’s Digest magazines, thousands of titles are banned in prisons and jails across the country, often with opaque reasons and with little ...
In 2018, The Last Mile opened its first program outside of California at the Indiana Women’s Prison. All the while, Redlitz and Parenti established partnerships and a support pipeline in the ...
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One of the most popular books is A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. [3] Apart from the bookstore, the Lucy Parsons Center serves as a space for community organizers to use for meetings and special events. It also hosts a weekly movie night. [7] The center also helps provide free books to prisoners through the Prison Book ...