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2. Chicago Books to Women in Prison - Wikipedia

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   Website. cbwp .org. Chicago Books to Women in Prison (CBWP) is an all-volunteer nonprofit 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.

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] The program receives letters from people in prison asking for specific titles or ...

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

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   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 ...

5. List of books banned by governments - Wikipedia

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   The first book to be banned by the Irish Free State for alleged "indecency". Republished in 2013. [143] A Farewell to Arms: Ernest Hemingway: 1929 Novel Suppressed in the Irish Free State. [141] Marriage and Morals: Bertrand Russell: 1929 Non-fiction Suppressed in the Irish Free State for discussing sex education, birth control and open ...

6. What Can You Read in Prison? - AOL

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   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 ...

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

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8. 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. Since then, dozens of prison book programs have been established, although ...

9. Donated books heading to NM prison libraries - AOL

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   Dec. 24—Boxes upon boxes full of books will soon be heading to prison libraries across New Mexico, thanks to a book drive that was hosted from Dec. 4 to Dec. 22 by the ACLU of New Mexico. This ...