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Prison Related Books
When Prisoners Come Home: Parole & Prisoner Reentry (Studies in Crime & Public Policy)
    by Joan Petersilia
Loving Through Bars: Children with Parents in Prison
    by Cynthia Martone
Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment
    by Marc Mauer
Gates of Injustice: The Crisis in America's Prisons
    by Alan Elsner
The Encyclopedia of American Prisons (Facts on File Crime Library)
    by Carl Sifakis
The Funhouse Mirror: Reflections on Prison
    by Robert Ellis Gordon
Behind Bars: Surviving Prison
    by Jeffrey Ian Ross, Stephen C. Richards
Too Much Time: Women in Prison
    by Jane Evelyn Atwood
How to Love and Inspire Your Man After Prison
    by Michael B. Jackson
Life in Prison
    by Stanley "Tookie" Williams, Barbara Cottman Becnel
You Got Nothing Coming: Notes From a Prison Fish
    by Jimmy A. Lerner
How to Do Good After Prison: A Handbook for the "Committed Man"
    by Michael B. Jackson
Letter and Papers from Prison
    by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Prison Ministry: Understanding Prison Culture Inside and Out
    by Lennie Spitale
A World Apart: Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars
    by Cristina Rathbone
The Rich Get Richer & the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, & Criminal Justice, Seventh Edition
    by Jeffrey Reiman
Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance
    by Leonard Peltier
Downsizing Prisons: How To Reduce Crime And End Mass Incarceration
    by Michael Jacobson
The Big House: Life Inside a Supermax Security Prison (Voyageur American Heritage)
    by James H. Bruton
Life, death and Sex in Prison
    by Jimmie
Life Without Parole: Living in Prison Today
    by Victor Hassine
No Safe Haven: Stories of Women in Prison
    by Lori B. Girshick
Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor
    by Tara Herivel
Prison Etiquette: The Convict's Compendium of Useful Information
    by Philip Metres
Drawing Time: Art Therapy in Prisons and Other Correctional Settings
    by David Gussak
Women in Prison: Inside the Concrete Womb
    by Kathryn Watterson
Surviving Federal Prison Camp: An Informative & Helpful Guide for Prospective Inmates
    by Gerald J. Luongo
Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis
    by Christian Parenti
Overcoming Prison and Addiction
    by Charles M. Terry
Notorious Prisons: An Inside Look at the Worlds Most Feared Institutions
    by Scott Christianson
The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison
    by Pete Earley
Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing-A PEN American Center Prize Anthology
    by Bell Gale Chevigny
What If I Go To Prison?
    by Michael G. Santos
Hard Time: Understanding and Reforming the Prison
    by Robert Johnson
Behind Bars: Readings on Prison Culture
    by Richard Tewksbury
Hard Time Blues: How Politics Built a Prison Nation
    by Sasha Abramsky
Can't Wait to Go Back to Prison
    by John Michael Domino
Fugitive Thought: Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice
    by Michael Hames-Garcia
The Prison Experience: Special Issues of Women in Prison
    by Merry Morash, Pamela J. Schram
In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison (Vintage)
    by Jack Henry Abbott
States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons
    by Joy James

Prisoner/Prison Related Book Programs
The Aleph Institute
9540 Collins Avenue
Surfside, Florida 33154
Phone: (305) 864-5553

Aleph is a not-for-profit national organization which has created and implemented a host of programs over the past 20 years that provide alternatives to incarceration, rehabilitate inmates, counsel and assist their families, and provide moral and ethical educational programs inculcating universal truths and concepts common to all of humanity. Jewish inmates may write to receive free books, regular monthly literature, holiday offerings, and family programs.

Books for Prisoners - c/o Groundwork Books
0323 Student Center
La Jolla, California 92037
Phone: (858) 452-9625 - E-mail: groundwork@libertad.ucsd.edu

Groundwork Books offers up to two books per person, free of charge. Send your request, specifying your interests, and we will send you a detailed booklet for that area of interest. Subjects: politics, spirituality, feminism, dictionaries, culture, social criticism, and select novels. Stamp donations are appreciated but not required.

Books Through Bars
4722 Baltimore Avenue
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19143
Phone: ( 215) 727-8170 - E-mail: info@BooksThroughBars.org

We offer a wide range of reading materials free of charge to inmates. Request books by topic and specific subject areas (for example: novels, self-help, American history, etc.). If you wish, you may request specific titles or authors, however, we may not be able to provide these. No legal books. Donations, including stamps, are greatly appreciated. Please send information regarding prison regulations for reading material being sent in.

Books to Prisoners (BTP)
92 Pike Street Box A
Seattle, Washington 98104

BTP sends donated books to prisoners. Choice of books is limited. Please send a list of topics you are interested in. No legal or religious books. It may take six to eight months for material to arrive, please be patient. Donations of stamps are appreciated.

Books to Prisons D.C. Area
P.O. Box 5206
Hyattsville, Maryland 20782
Phone: (301) 699-0042 - E-mail: bookstoprisons@mutualaid.org

Books to Prisons offers free educational as well as a wide selection of fiction and nonfiction reading material to prisoners around the United States free of charge. Please send requests for your general interests.

The Granite Publishing Group
P.O. Box 1429
Columbus, North Carolina 28722
Phone: (828) 894-8444 - E-mail: brian@5thworld.com

Inmates may write to receive free books on subjects that support the cultivation of planetary consciousness. The metaphysical/transformational subjects of our books range from Native American spirituality to the extraterrestrial presence. Please send postage if possible.

The Inside Books Project - c/o 12th Street Books
827 West 12th Street
Austin, Texas 78701
Phone: (512) 647-4803 - E-mail: insidebooksproject@yahoo.com

We send books free of charge to Texas inmates only. Please expect a three to six month wait. We also offer a resource list and a free newsletter. Donations and/or stamps are appreciated if possible.

Lucy Parson's Center & Bookstore (PBP)
110 Arlington Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116
Phone: (617) 423-3298

You may request topics or titles: limited legal materials, educational, social, political, fiction, and books in Spanish. No catalogue, however a resource list is available. We do not send books to California, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Michigan, or Texas. Be patient, there is often a wait for a few weeks or months.

Prison Book Project
P.O. Box 396
Amherst, Massachusetts 01004-0396
Phone: (413) 584-8975 ext. 208 - E-mail: info@prisonbooks.org

You may request books by topics of interest. We do our best to meet the needs and demands of inmates. You may also request a specific book and we will try to find it for you. No mailing list or catalogue. Donations of artwork and poetry for fundraising greatly appreciated. Sorry, no Texas inmates.

Prisoners Literature Project - c/o Bound Together Bookstore
1369 Haight Street
San Francisco, California 94117
Phone: (415) 431-8355

You may request types of books—not specific titles. No Christian, Islamic, horror, romance novels, or legal books. Stamps or donations are greatly appreciated but are not required. Main types of books usually requested: dictionaries, ethnic studies, basic educational books. Sorry, no Texas prisoners.

The Prison Library Project
915 West Foothill Boulevard P.M.B. 128
Claremont, California 91711

The Prison Library Project supplies books free of charge to inmates who request them. We try to provide an ongoing invitation to prisoners to embrace personal responsibility, growth, and a deeper appreciation for the world of books, ideas, and education. We offer books on self-help, personal and spiritual growth, wellness, and metaphysical books. No law books, technical, or GED, and no catalogue.

San Diego California Coalition for Women Prisoners - c/o World Beat Center
2100 Park Boulevard
San Diego, California 92101
Phone: (619) 987-7553

SDCCWP sends books to women prisoners on various women's and political issues. Please write to request a free book list. Stamp donations are appreciated to pay for shipping.

Women's Prison Book Project (WPBP) - c/o Arise Bookstore
2441 Lyndale Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55405
Phone: (612) 729-5845 - E-mail: wpbp@prisonactivist.org

Since 1994, the Women's Prison Book Project has provided women in prison with free reading materials covering a wide range of topics from law and education (dictionaries, GED, etc.) to politics, history, and women's health. There are other prison book projects, but we seek to meet the specific needs of women in prison.

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