Another slogan on a board? Your support makes it real. In 2023, we anticipate over 14,000 requests from people in prisons and jails across the US. They may have few – if any – other ways of accessing books for education, personal growth, or companionship. We want to take a moment to thank all of you who continue to make our mission a reality. We couldn’t do any of this without you. What can your donation do? $25 pays postage to send two pounds of books each to six people. $1

With apologies for the radio silence, we are alive! As 2021 progressed and we slowly rolled back our COVID restrictions, keeping the blog up-to-date fell to the wayside – but rest assured that we are still around, still kicking, and still sending books to people behind bars. COVID – for those of us who are not yet sick of, or from, it – has thankfully receded in our state since the holiday/Omicron wave, although local cases have begun to rise after the mask mandate was repeal

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...

It’s time for the inevitable – a post detailing our response to the COVID-19 pandemic! At this point, organizational announcements about C19 are all functionally identical, so I’ll skip the preliminaries about these “unprecedented times” and whatnot. Although this is mostly meant to catch up anybody who might be passingly curious about how we’ve been, there is some detail about our procedures, to benefit any other BTP-style groups who are looking for guidance. In early March,

Seattle Arts and Lectures (SAL) chose Books to Prisoners to receive the 2020 Prowda Literary Champion Award. From their site, "The Prowda Literary Champion Award is named for Sherry Prowda, SAL’s founder and first Executive Director. It was created to honor Prowda’s vision of a future in which imaginative acts such as reading, writing, and creative thinking are indispensable to a curious, engaged, democratic society, and her leadership as a champion of the literary arts." SAL

As many of you know, last winter we moved from our old location at University Christian Church to our new home with Crown Hill United Methodists (CHUM.) Unfortunately, the building is being transferred to a new church, and we’re being sent out to look for a new space again. This happened with fairly short notice for us; we need to be out of here by the end of September. Since moving takes about two months, we really need your help finding a new location as soon as we can! Wh

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