Our library runs on donations! This month we are particularly looking for magazines! Please consider bringing in any of the following: Fashion magazines Celebrity and pop culture magazines Sports magazines Car/truck magazines
On December 19, 2025, the ABC voted to enact the most restrictive prohibition on books and magazines anywhere in the US. As of February 1, 2026, people in AR state prisons would no longer be allowed to own or receive actual paper books, magazines, or newspapers. They could only read from electronic tablets or check books out from their prison's library. The only exception would be for religious material that had been mailed to a chaplain. ABC said that such a radical approach
This year on International Women's day we take the time to acknowledge and honor the women trapped in our countries prisons and jails. Women make up a proportionately small percentage of the incarcerated population, but have experienced a faster rate of incarceration than men in the past decade. Women in U.S prisons face unique challenges due to the layers of institutionalized gender based violence perpetuated in carceral settings. Power imbalances within the prison setting m
We need more books! Please consider donating your used or new books to BTP! Current categories we are low on: Dictionaries (paperback) Fantasy (paperback or hardback) Horror (paperback or hardback) Thrillers (paperback or hardback) Native American history (paperback) Pagan/Occult (paperback or hardback) Meditation (paperback or hardback) Cars (paperback or hardback) Black fiction (paperback or hardback)
Presidents Day is a federal holiday created to honor the executive leaders of our country and their legacies. Part of these legacies is the maintenance and evolution of a criminal justice system based in racial hierarchy and exploitation. So which of these executive leaders wielded their power to contribute to the horrors of modern mass incarceration and the growth of the prison industrial complex? The 1970s brought a boom in the prison population and an exponential increase
“The moment we choose to love, we begin to move toward freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others” bell hooks Valentine's day is a day we take to celebrate the love in our lives, but frequently we find ourselves focusing on the love in our individual relationships rather than love we seek from community and society. As feminist theorist bell hooks reminds us, love is not a feeling we are struck by, or something we are lucky to fall into, but rather a political
We need more books! Please consider donating your used or new books to Books to Prisoners! We will make sure they find a lovely new home:) Categories we are currently low on: Paperback dictionaries Fantasy (paperback or hardback) Horror (paperback or hardback) Thrillers (paperback or hardback) Sci-fi (paperback or hardback) Spanish-English dictionaries (paperback) How to draw (paperback) Composition books Native American literature (paperback)
