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  2. Books to Prisoners - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Prison Book Program - Wikipedia

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    Prison Book Program is an American non-profit organization that sends free books to people in prison. [1] 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 . [ 2 ]

  4. Wisconsin Books to Prisoners - Wikipedia

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    Wisconsin Books to Prisoners is a volunteer-run nonprofit books to prisoners organization which sends books upon request to people incarcerated in Wisconsin. [1] The organization is based in Madison, WI and was founded in 2006.

  5. Books Through Bars - Wikipedia

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    Books Through Bars is an American organization that works to provide quality reading material to prisoners in Pennsylvania and surrounding states. Members of New Society Publishers of Philadelphia founded Books Through Bars in 1990. [4] Books Through Bars was separately incorporated as a nonprofit organization on March 19, 2001. [5]

  6. Chicago Books to Women in Prison - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. American prison literature - Wikipedia

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    Prison writing has often been seen as an act of political resistance. In the first two decades of the 20th century, the prisoners who were published were primarily social activists. Socialist writer Kate Richards O'Hare , spent a year in prison (1919–1920), causing her to dedicate her life to exposing the horrors of prison conditions and the ...

  8. Couldn't Keep It to Myself - Wikipedia

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    For several years, Wally Lamb taught writing skills to inmates at the York Correctional Institution, a women's prison in Niantic, Connecticut. The book contains personal stories written by the inmates dealing with their lives. Most were sexually, physically, or mentally abused, and came from impoverished backgrounds.

  9. Changing Lives Through Literature - Wikipedia

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    Changing Lives Through Literature (CLTL) is a bibliotherapy program that offers alternative probation sentences to offenders. The program was created in 1991 by Robert Waxler, an English professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and Superior Court Judge Robert Kane. [1]