Prisoners Literature Project – Page 9 – An all-volunteer grassroots group that sends over a thousand free book packages to incarcerated people across the United States every month.

December 22, 2019

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.

December 6, 2019

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!

December 2, 2019

Help PLP for Giving Tuesday!

We wanted to ask for your help on Giving Tuesday, which is on December 3rd.

December 1, 2019

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.

October 29, 2019

New PLP ‘thank you’ letters

Two wonderful new ‘thank you’ letters from prisoners who successfully received books from PLP recently!

October 25, 2019

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.

September 23, 2019

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.

August 11, 2019

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.

June 30, 2019

A letter from a PLP client!

We wanted to highlight this wonderful letter from a (now former) prisoner who used our Prisoners Literature Project service to get books.

June 9, 2019

Check out this PLP profile!

In case you missed it: this wonderful profile of the work we do at the Prisoners Literature Project was posted on the Oakland North website last month.

Sending books to people behind bars for over 45 years

Bookshelves at the Prisoners Literature Project

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.