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Seattle nonprofit mailing free books to incarcerated people in the United States. Advocating for access to education & communication in facilities since 1973. Books to Prisoners believes in the educational, self-empowering, and redemptive values of reading in prison. Our mission is to fulfill the educational and literary needs of prisoners across the United States. We do this firstly by sending them books upon request at no charge; secondly, by challenging restrictions on the receipt of reading materials.
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Books to Prisoners Welcome to Books to Prisoners Books To Prisoners is a Seattlebased nonprofit organization whose mission is to foster a love of reading behind bars encourage the pursuit of knowledge and selfempowerment and break the cycle of recidivism. We believe that books are tools for learning and for opening minds to new ideas and possibilities. We engage incarcerated individuals with the benefits of reading by mailing tens of thousands of free books to people in prisons across the country each year. Books to Prisoners was founded in the early 1970s as a project of Left Bank Books.

Services to Prisoners/Families Adult, Continuing Ed Civil Rights, Advocacy for Specific Groups
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