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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 ]
Women's Prison Book Project was founded in 1994 in Minneapolis, [7] and incorporated as a nonprofit in Minnesota in 2000. [8] The organization was initially located in the basement of a volunteer. Since then, it has been located at several places in Minneapolis, including Arise Bookstore, [ 9 ] Boneshaker Books, [ 10 ] [ 11 ] SOCO Commons, and ...
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.
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.
The first state prison library was established in 1802. [19] At the beginning of the 19th century prisons were usually operated by the clergy. [1] The purpose of the library was to increase religious devotion and modify behaviour. In many prisons during this time period the library collection consisted only of the Bible and sometimes prayer ...
Racine Correctional Institution, a medium-security prison and one of the 36 adult correctional institutions in Wisconsin, houses 11,000 books, according to Beth Hardtke, director of communications ...
The collection consists of about 10,000 donated books. [4] The most widely requested books include dictionaries and composition books. [7] Coloring books are also frequently requested, and CBWP sends around 500 to 600 coloring books a year. [6] Many women that are served are mothers and also need of books about parenting while in prison.