Prisoners Literature Project

New art from grateful inmates to the PLP

January 2018  |  Published in Announcements, Latest News, Prisoner Letters

As the Prisoners Literature Project powers through the rest of 2017, we wanted to highlight a couple of new pieces of art recently sent in to us.

This illustrated envelope was sent in, and seems very relevant to today, even if it was written quite a long time ago:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aw, this ‘thank you’ art sent in to the Prisoners Literature Project from a grateful U.S. inmate twins the recent eclipse with cartoon characters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally, here’s something that sits on our shelves at the PLP, and we believe it did come from a prisoner originally. And it’s very relevant:

If you’d like to help us keep sending books to hundreds of prisoners weekly so we keep getting thank you-s like this, then here’s how you can – and thanks for reading this!

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