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2. Prison Book Program - Wikipedia

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   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 ]

3. Books to Prisoners - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Chicago Books to Women in Prison - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. Imagining a life beyond prison walls: Why tiny libraries are ...

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   Founded in 2020, Freedom Reads works to place millions of books into prisons by installing one Freedom Library at a time in every prison dormitory and housing unit in the United States based on ...

6. 12 Free Library Perks You Didn't Know About - AOL

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   The library isn’t just a place to get free books — it’s also a de facto community center. Most libraries have a variety of free events that they plan for cardholders.

7. What Can You Read in Prison? - AOL

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   Books provide a lifeline to the incarcerated, but censorship and accessibility are major obstacles. In America’s prisons, people are finding their own ways to fight back.

8. Books Through Bars - Wikipedia

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   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]

9. A Little Free Library and letters from prison: How KC couple ...

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   Linda and Robert “Robin” Parkinson installed a Little Free Library in the front yard of their Kansas City home about a decade ago. It caught the eye of Bobby Bostic while he was still in prison.