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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 ]
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.
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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.
By 2019, technological developments such as the choice to transition to tablet-based led to prison elimination of law libraries in South Dakota and has threatened to end book donations to prisoners and their libraries in favor of charging prisoners for books available in e-book format. [12] Another challenge is the literacy of inmates.
(See Google News Archive.) Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection - includes 209,000 issues of 198 newspapers from the U.S. state of Illinois; Hoosier State Chronicles - includes 1.4 million pages of newspapers from the U.S. state of Indiana; Manitobia (1869–present) – 37 Manitoban newspapers provided by Department of Canadian Heritage.
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]