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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 ...
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 book inspired Thomas Mott Osborne, who later became warden at Sing Sing, to dedicate his career to prison reform. [ citation needed ] In 1924, after World War I, H.L. Mencken founded the American Mercury magazine and regularly published convict authors.
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]
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.