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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.
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 ]
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LGBT Books to Prisoners is a volunteer-run nonprofit books to prisoners organization which sends free reading materials to incarcerated LGBT people across the US. [1] The organization is based in Madison, WI and was founded in 2006 as an offshoot of Wisconsin Books to Prisoners. In over 15 years, LGBT BtP has sent books to over 13,000 people.
The collection consists of about 10,000 donated books. [4] The most widely requested books include dictionaries and composition books. [7] Coloring books are also frequently requested, and CBWP sends around 500 to 600 coloring books a year. [6] Many women that are served are mothers and also need of books about parenting while in prison.
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]
For decades thereafter, the office served not only as the Circuit Court's clerk, but also served as the ex-officio county recorder of deeds. [2] This ended in 1872, when the county's recorder of deeds was again created as a separate office. [2] On January 1, 1964, the more than 200 courts of Cook County were unified. [3]