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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.
Library books, Guantanamo prison, 2011. America has had prison libraries since 1790. [19] The first state prison library was established in 1802. [19] At the beginning of the 19th century prisons were usually operated by the clergy. [1] The purpose of the library was to increase religious devotion and modify behaviour.
Linda and Robert “Robin” Parkinson installed a Little Free Library in the front yard of their Kansas City home about a decade ago. It caught the eye of Bobby Bostic while he was still in prison.
Founded in 2020, Freedom Reads works to place millions of books into prisons by installing one Freedom Library at a time in every prison dormitory and housing unit in the United States based on ...
Books provide a lifeline to the incarcerated, but censorship and accessibility are major obstacles. In America’s prisons, people are finding their own ways to fight back.
Chicago Books to Women in Prison (CBWP) is an all-volunteer nonprofit books to prisoners organization that provides free books to incarcerated women in state and federal prisons across the United States. On average, around 3,000 packages are sent per year, pulled from a collection that averages around 10,000 donated books.
Collected editions of these stories began to appear in the mid-18th century, and in 1774 a five-volume bound edition became the standard version. While many of its accounts are highly embellished and/or drawn uncritically from other sources, they are lively and full of incident, and often refer to contemporary events and social issues.