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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 ...
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 ...
The limitations on which books do and don’t make it to prison-library shelves confound inmates and librarians alike. “They take security to any level possible,” said Cerda.
Virginia State Penitentiary was a prison in Richmond, Virginia. Towards the end of its life it was a part of the Virginia Department of Corrections . Early 1900s. First opening in 1800, the prison was completed in 1804; it was built due to a reform movement preceding its construction. [1] Thomas Jefferson initiated these reforms and submitted ...
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.
Margaret Crittendon Douglass. Margaret Crittendon Douglass (born c. 1822; year of death unknown) was a Southern white woman who served one month in jail in 1854 for teaching free black children to read in Norfolk, Virginia. Refusing to hire a defense attorney, she defended herself in court and later published a book about her experiences. [1]