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April 24, 2025

PLP + Independent Bookstore Day 2025 + Matching Grant

Please consider purchasing a book during this two week period so that PLP can reach the max matching donation. Details here!

November 26, 2024

Focus on the PLP bookshelves

Prisoners Literature Project sends out over 30,000 books a year! There are a huge range of topics requested by incarcerated readers. We do our best to stock books in some of the more popular areas. Here are a few such titles that we thought we’d share.

September 3, 2024

What do people love about volunteering with PLP?

PLP is an all-volunteer organization so needless to way we couldn’t send out thousands of books each year without so many people contributing in different ways to our efforts. Hear from a few of our volunteers…

June 17, 2024

Check out videos of volunteers reading letters and showing book selections

Here are two videos of volunteers reading letters and showing book selections

May 25, 2024

Berkeley High students interested in law and social justice have participated in multiple book selection sessions this past year.

This past week we hosted one last letter answering session before the end of school with local high school students

April 26, 2024

What kinds of books do people ask for?

The most common requests are for genre fiction (thrillers, romance, sci-fi/fantasy, etc), self-help, business, drawing, graphic novels, science, GED material, exercise, almanacs and so much more. Here is a sample of letters that volunteers responded to recently.

April 1, 2024

Great to receive this letter from someone who really enjoyed the book he received from us

Thick fantasy/sci-fi novels like “The Starless Crown” are a popular request from incarcerated readers.

January 22, 2024

Fall 23/Winter 24 Thank you letters

So many great letters

January 3, 2024

See some favorite wishlist donations in 2023

Watch a video which highlights some of the great books we received in 2023.

July 3, 2023

PLP hosts session for Berkeley High Students

PLP hosted a session for Berkeley High School students this past June.

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Sending books to incarcerated people for over 35 years

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.

Please consider donating to the 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.

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Prisoners – want books?

Mailing address for U.S. prisoner book requests: Prisoner Literature Project c/o Bound Together Books 1369 Haight St San Francisco, CA 94117 There's more info here on what else prisoners need to include with their requests.
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