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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.
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.
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 ]
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 ...
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.
Tens of thousands of books have been banned or restricted in U.S. prisons, according to a report by PEN America, a free speech organization that has been tracking book bans in the country. On ...
One of the most popular books is A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. [3] Apart from the bookstore, the Lucy Parsons Center serves as a space for community organizers to use for meetings and special events. It also hosts a weekly movie night. [7] The center also helps provide free books to prisoners through the Prison Book ...
According to Deitch, the Synanon-style approach continues to be particularly popular among administrators of prison treatment programs. In October 2013, he advised the mother of Jesse Brown, a 29-year-old Idaho addict who, as a precondition of his early release from prison, was compelled to enter a psychologically brutal “therapeutic ...