New York State is piloting a program which only allows a few prison-industrial complex ‘approved vendors’ – which have a limited, unhelpful set of full-priced books – to send packages to prisoners.
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.
Our volunteer sessions are running all the way through the holiday, including Xmas Eve and New Year’s Eve (both Sundays!) and Wednesday 27th, for anyone who’d like to come and help us pick/pack books for prisoners.
We just wanted to thank everybody for your amazing response to our GivingTuesday campaign – we met our matching goal, thanks to you all!
Hey there PLP volunteers & friends, We’d like to invite you to our 2017 Prisoners Literature Project holiday party.
As Giving Tuesday (November 28th) approaches, we at the Prisoners Literature Project are launching a special fundraising campaign.
Come visit the Prisoners Literature Project at the Howard Zinn Book Fair, next Sunday (Nov.19th) from 10am to 6pm at City College of San Francisco!
NOTE: the PLP’s volunteer session on Sunday, November 26th from 1pm to 5pm is cancelled, due to another Grassroots House group using the space. (We’re open every Wednesday and Sunday for volunteer sessions besides that date!)
REMINDER: the Prisoners Literature Project is appearing at not one, not two, but THREE different Bay Area events over the next couple of weeks:
As summer continues, the Prisoners Literature Project also continues to send out 200+ packages of books to needy U.S. prisoners weekly. Here’s some visual highlights.
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.
