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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.
The Prison Mirror, first published in 1887, is the oldest continuously operating prison newspaper. [ 11 ] [ 5 ] The Angolite , the prison newspaper of the Louisiana State Penitentiary , has won numerous journalism awards including the George Polk Award and a nomination for a National Magazine Award .
Pages in category "Prison newspapers" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Prison newspaper; I.
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 ...
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.
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 ]
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.
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 ...