"Used Books Not Allowed" scrawled on the wrapping paper of a package of books refused by a prison mailroom. Today is the first day of Prison Banned Books Week 2025, a week examining the catastrophic impact of censorship on information access inside jails, prisons, and detention centers. Head to prisonbannedbooksweek.org  for updates and actions this week, and SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BOOKS TO PEOPLE IN PRISONS CHAPTER by donating books, gifting postage money, volunteering, and spre

“Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights.” That's the theme the American Library Association and the Banned Books Coalition have...

We Can’t Forget People Experiencing Incarceration in Our Fight for Readers’ Rights , an essay published today on Book Riot, describes...

In 1982, Banned Books Week was launched during the first week of October to protest the sharp rise in the number of challenges to books...

Call for action: It is our understanding that NYC Department of Corrections is planning on stopping Books to Prisoners and other prison...

“On the heels of great work by @MarshallProj showing TX prisons ban thousands of books, we’ve just received a rejection from TX DCJ for...

In December 2021, we received a package that had been refused by the mailroom at the South Central Correctional Center in Clifton,...

Episode 3 of the Restricted Reading Podcast Series on Kouvenda Media "Michelle Dillon, volunteer and board member for Books to Prisoners...

Iowa Public Radio cites Books to Prisoners and other advocates of incarcerated people's right to read, as well as friends and family...

In March 2019, the Washington State Department of Corrections (WA DOC) prohibited state prisons from accepting used books mailed to...

Books are a Lifeline to Prisoners, June 2017, Forward Reviews The Freedom of Reading, October 2016, American Libraries Criminal Justice...