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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] The program receives letters from people in prison asking for specific titles or ...
The Virginia Department of Corrections ( VADOC) is the government agency responsible for community corrections and operating prisons and correctional facilities in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The agency is fully accredited by the American Correctional Association and is one of the oldest functioning correctional agencies ...
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. Since then, dozens of prison book programs have been established, although ...
But navigating the prison library system and obtaining books from the outside can be fraught. “The people who need information the most, who need access to books the most, are often the ones who ...
Freedom Reads brought 500 books and free-standing micro-libraries to the men at medium security and the women’s unit, along with a performance by Reginald Dwayne Betts, founder of Freedom Reads ...
Library books, Guantanamo prison, 2011. America has had prison libraries since 1790. The first state prison library was established in 1802. At the beginning of the 19th century prisons were usually operated by the clergy. The purpose of the library was to increase religious devotion and modify behaviour.
The Divine Invasion. Valis (stylized as VALIS) is a 1981 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, intended to be the first book of a three-part series. The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of God. Set in California during the 1970s, the book features heavy auto-biographical ...
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