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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.
As Camy Matthay readied the book requests of more than 200 Wisconsin inmates earlier this year, she got word of a significant complication: No more used books would be allowed to enter any of the ...
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.
Wisconsin Books to Prisoners; Women's Prison Book Project This page was last edited on 28 December 2024, at 15:07 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Image credits: persondude27 #2. Here in Wisconsin, there’s a volunteer organization that trains guide dogs. All guide dogs in this program are housed at a prison an trained by an inmate for a ...
Books about Black and Indigenous people, Latinos and the LGBTQ community are often banned in prisons, but prohibited titles vary widely from state to state, Book bans in prison cut inmates ...
The first Books to Prisoners projects were founded in the early 1970s. 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.
Each week, the 22-year-old drives a van of her DePaul University peers to Cook County Jail to discuss books with inmates and recently, the well-known activist Sister Helen Prejean. Ampofo comes ...