We’re thrilled to share our new online merch shop with you. We’ve been working behind the scenes to bring you a mix of brand-new designs and pieces of PLP history, including digital restorations of two vintage PLP silk screen designs. We have options ranging from tees, hoodies and totes to mugs, buttons and stickers. All items are printed on demand […]
Help us continue to send quality books to readers in prison. Every book purchased during this week will be matched by a generous donor.
Books banned in U.S. prisons represent the largest and most pervasive form of book censorship in the country, with individual state departments of corrections banning tens of thousands of titles.
PLP has to track these titles and add to the long list when books get returned because they are now disallowed by a prison.
PLP was pleased to host a group from the University of Utah again this week, as part of the Alternative Breaks program of the Bennion Center. On Alternative Breaks, teams of students, along with faculty/staff partners, work alongside communities throughout the western United States on a variety of community-identified projects to address a variety of social and environmental justice topics. […]
Thank you so much to Tor Books (and its various labels) for donating so many wonderful sci-fi, fantasy, romantasy and other genre fiction to PLP. (We can’t wait to send it all to incarcerated folks looking for great new reads!)
A reporter at local Bay Area news site Berkeleyside ended up interviewing multiple volunteers and attending sessions, and the result was this great write-up on our books to prisoners program.
Please consider purchasing a book off these bookstore partner wishlists so that PLP can reach the max matching grant amount! If you’re in the Bay Area, books purchased at the local bookstores listed below with PLP displays will also be matched by the grant. Stop by and check them out. Bookstores are the best! Pegasus on Solano in BerkeleyPegasus on […]
We’re happy to share some of the recent thank you letters PLP has received from book recipients. Many of them are now posted around our library for volunteers to browse. It’s a pleasure to know books are “saving lives” behind bars.
It’s always fun to see which books on our shelves match up with requests from readers.
Prisoners Literature Project is an inclusive, all-volunteer, grassroots nonprofit whose purpose is to encourage reading, the pursuit of knowledge, and self-determination among incarcerated people. By sending free reading materials to those behind bars, PLP aims to foster learning and critical thinking and help prepare people to lead successful lives after incarceration. We believe that all people have a right to read.
Please consider donating to PLP or volunteering your time (if you live in the Bay Area, CA!) to help us answer letters from prisoners who write us from all over the United States.
