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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 ]
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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.
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 ...
Storybook Dads is a non-profit charity in the UK founded by Sharon Berry and first launched in HM Prison Dartmoor in 2003. The charity enables serving prisoners and detainees to record bed time stories which can then be sent home to their children, and aims to maintain connections between serving prisoners and their families. [2]
This category is for autobiographies or memoirs in book form dealing with significant episodes of imprisonment, or by a prison guard or officer. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
The 15-year-old sophomore's mom wrote all of the notes by herself, hoping they could be a sign of encouragement. Parent posts 1,200 handwritten notes of encouragement to students' lockers at son's ...
One of the most widely read early accounts of prison life in the 20th century was My Life in Prison (1912), by Donald Lowrie. The book inspired Thomas Mott Osborne, who later became warden at Sing Sing, to dedicate his career to prison reform.