NPR talks banned books & prisons.
A new NPR article is delving into why books are banned in U.S. prisons, with some interesting quotes from prison officials and activists.
Curbed recommends PLP for book donations!
This article from Curbed SF mentions Prisoners Literature Project as a good place to donate your unwanted books!
Holiday greetings (& session times!) from PLP
Happy holidays from the Prisoners Literature Project! A couple of notes and thank you-s from us as we wrap up this year at PLP.
Come see PLP at the Howard Zinn Book Fair!
The Howard Zinn Book Fair is happening on Sunday, December 8th in San Francisco, and Prisoners Literature Project will have a table there selling surplus books & taking donations!
Help PLP for Giving Tuesday!
We wanted to ask for your help on Giving Tuesday, which is on December 3rd.
PLP featured in Mother Jones magazine
The January/February 2020 issue of Mother Jones magazine includes an excellent piece about books & libraries for prisoners, including a section referencing the PLP.
New PLP ‘thank you’ letters
Two wonderful new ‘thank you’ letters from prisoners who successfully received books from PLP recently!
Why and how censorship thrives in American prisons
Great article on the censorship of books sent to prisoners – something the PLP also struggles with fairly regularly.
A PLP thank-you letter to savor
We always very much appreciate thank-you letters from U.S. prisoners, and this simple but pure thank-you card we received at PLP today is a wonderful example.
PLP library – rearranged.
Thanks to a number of PLP co-ordinators, we rearranged the Prisoners Literature Project library at our HQ (Grassroots House in Berkeley) the other weekend.
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 people prepare to lead successful lives after incarceration. We believe that all people have a right to read.
