PLP’s 2025 Year in Review

To end the year, here are some highlights from PLP’s busy 2025:

• In August, PLP moved to nearby larger space. More room, more shelves, more books available to send out!
• PLP established an Anti-Censorship team (ACT) to start pushing back on tightening restrictions from prisons about the books we send. Our first effort is to target jails in California (some nearby and in the Bay Area) that won’t even allow us to send NEW, high quality books to incarcerated readers.
• A small team of PLP volunteers analyzed over 1,300 letters received in September from incarcerated people. We want to better understand who was writing (and from where) and assess whether PLP has the books to meet their particular needs.
• Sent over 15,000 packages to incarcerated people, amounting to over 45,000 books!
• Held over 260 book packing sessions (3 hours each), including some with local high school students. That’s over 6,000 volunteers hours responding to letters alone!
• Over 300 unique volunteers logged hours with PLP including some that worked over 100 hours just this year.

PLP provides books and human contact. 
We were moved to receive this note (with a picture of his sons) from a book recipient.

Thanks for supporting Prisoners Literature Project so far in 2025!

PLP would like to thank everyone who contributed to our Giving Tuesday fundraising. We’re happy to say that, thanks to your help, we made our matching goal!

We’re still looking for your final, year-end 2025 donations to help pay for ever-increasing USPS postage & book procurement costs. 

If you can help out:
PLEASE DONATE NOW! (it’s so appreciated!)