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2. Books to Prisoners - Wikipedia

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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.

3. 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 ]

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. 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.

7. Wisconsin prisons ban used books, citing drug concerns ... - AOL

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   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 ...

8. Prison library - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

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.