Write to Read: Youth Literacy at Juvenile Hall, Fremont, CA



Literacy programs for incarcerated persons

including book & reading material providers

California

Prison Literature Project

The plp is an all-volunteer project that sends free books to prisoners all over the U.S. A project of Bound Together Bookstore and bay area prison activists, PLP is not affiliated with any religious organizations, political parties, or government agencies.

PLP @ Bound Together Books

1369 Haight St

San Francisco, CA 94117

prisonlit@

(510) 893-4648



Write 2 Read: Youth Literacy at Juvenile Hall

A partnership between the Alameda County Library, the Department of Probation and the Alameda County Office of Education, the Right 2 Read: Youth Literacy at Juvenile Hall program has introduced reading to more than 4,000 incarcerated youth. Founded in 1999, Write 2 Read motivates young people housed in the Alameda County Juvenile Hall to strengthen their reading skills and make meaningful connections to authors and books that can positively influence the choices they make in their own lives.

Extension Services Manager

Don Nunes

Alameda County Library

Extension Services

2450 Stevenson Blvd.

Fremont, CA 94538

(510) 745-1474, fax (510) 745-1494

Write to Read Librarian

Amy Cheney

Alameda County Library

Extension Services

2450 Stevenson Blvd.

Fremont, CA 94538-2326

acheney@

510-557-0643



Free Books To Prisoners

c/o Serve The People

P.O. Box 29670

Los Angeles, CA  90029-0670

 

San Diego Coalition for Women Prisoners

c/o Groundwork Books

0323 Student Center

La Jolla, CA  92037

 

Books For Prisoners

c/o Groundwork Books

0323 Student Center

La Jolla, CA  92037

? The Xena Society

Julia Schneider, Senior Librarian

Box 344

Hanford California 93232

Colorado

Diana Reese

Institutional Library Services Coordinator

Colorado State Library    OR    Buena Vista Correctional Facility

201 E. Colfax Ave.                  P.O. Box 2017

Denver, CO  80203                 Buena Vista, CO  81211

303-866-6341                         719-395-7254

fax:  303-866-6940                  fax:  719-395-7214

Illinois

American Library Association

Satia Marshall Orange, Director

Office for Literacy and Outreach Services (OLOS)

American Library Association

50 East Huron Street

Chicago, IL 60611

312-280-4295

E-mail: sorange@





Louisiana

Books to Prisoners

Iron Rail Bookstore and Publishing

831 Elysian Fields #143

New Orleans, LA 70117

Serves only Louisiana.

Maryland

Family Literacy@ Your Prison Library

In 2000, Maryland Correctional Educational Libraries(MCEL) in conjunction with Reading is Fundamental started a family literacy program, at Maryland Correctional Institute at Jessup, a medium security male prison.

In 2003, initiated a family literacy program at a maximum security male institution.

In 2006 Maryland State Dept. of Education received a Barbara Bush Literacy grant to continue the existing programs and to start another family literacy initiative at the Maryland correctional Institution for women.



Glennor Shirley

Library Coordinator

Maryland State Department of Education

Correctional Education Libraries

200 West Baltimore St

Baltimore, MD 21201

410 767 0493

Fax:410 333 2239

email: gshirley@msde.state.md.us



Massachusetts

Prison Book Program

The Prison Book Program has been supplying reading materials to inmates since 1972. They believe that literacy is a crucial step in assisting inmates, as "education is the only tool proven to help prevent people from returning to prison again and again."

Prison Book Program

c/o Lucy Parsons Bookstore

1306 Hancock Street, Suite 100

Quincy, MA 02169

(617) 423-3298



New Mexico

Prison Literacy Project

Jimmy Santiago Baca

Email: baca@

 

Jimmy Santiago Baca is an award-winning poet and author who learned to read and write while incarcerated in the Arizona prison system on drug charges from 1973-1978. Mr. Baca has conducted writing workshops in hundreds of correctional facilities for 27 years. In 2005 he created the Cedar Tree, Inc. to support his vision of giving the opportunity to all incarcerated people to become educated. The goal of the Prison Literacy Project is to make books, reading and writing very real and necessary components of inmates’ lives—tools that enrich and elevate the spirit and enhance one’s chances of attaining goals that are grounded, responsible and contributory.

Project Goals:

• Document best practices in prison-based creative writing workshops to facilitate nationwide replication of prison literacy project.

• Develop a documentary on the power of reading, writing and books to change lives and help inmates deal with issues such as literacy, gang violence, family, poverty, cultural background, and education.

e-mail: baca@



New York

Prisoners' Reading Encouragement Project

The Prisoners' Reading Encouragement Project, Inc. (PREP) is a not-for-profit organization, incorporated in November 2000, to serve as a support organization to prison libraries and educational programs.  Our mission is threefold:

i) to enhance literacy and educational opportunities for inmates by soliciting and making gifts to prison libraries;

ii) to educate the public about the need for libraries and educational programming within correctional facilities; and

iii) to establish scholarship funds for tuition and textbooks for inmates engaged in courses or independent study while in prison. 

Prison Libraries

PREP conducts on-going solicitations for new and gently used books, audiotapes and videotapes for the prison facilities with which the organization has established a relationship.  Since 2000, PREP donated more than 40,000 books to 23 New York State prisons.  Books are transported by volunteers to a central storage area, where they are inventoried; the inventories are offered to the prison librarians who select which books they would like to receive; then the selected books are transported, either by mail or by the State Department of Correctional Services to the correctional facilities.  PREP also fills requests from prison librarians, teachers or counselors for educational materials, all at no charge to the prisoner and prison facility.

Literacy for Incarcerated Teens

PREP is the fiscal sponsor for Literacy for Incarcerated Teens (LIT), a support organization for Passages Academy.  LIT's mission is the development of libraries in the schools of New York City's seven juvenile detention facilities, for which LIT has already received grants totalling $46,000.  To date, five libraries have been established.

Words Travel

PREP sponsors the Words Travel program at correctional facilities, a program by which inmates can record children's books and send the books and tape to their children.  In 2004, PREP donated more than 400 children's books for this program, benefiting more than 100 inmates and scores of children.

Annette Johnson, Prisoners Reading Encouragement Project, 145 Nassau St. #3-D, NY, NY 10038. 212-349-6741



Books thru Bars of Ithaca

Second Floor Autumn Leaves Bookstore

115 The Commons

Ithaca, NY 14850

Only serves New York state prisons.

Oregon

Portland Books to Prisoners

4733 NE 17th Ave

P.O. Box 11222

Portland, OR 97211

Email

Work hours are Mondays and Wednesdays from 5 - 8 p.m.

Pennsylvania

Books Through Bars

Books Through Bars was founded in the late 1980s by employees of New Society Publishers. They send quality reading material to inmates that “encourages creative dialogue on the criminal justice system.” In 2003, the group sent over 11,000 packages to individual inmates.

Books Through Bars

4722 Baltimore Ave.

Philadelphia, PA 19143

215-727-8170



Interactive map shows many prison book programs



Rhode Island

There is a literacy program at the ACI. The state library does not

provide any services related to the ACI literacy program, other than

support library services at the institution, but here is contact for the

program: Timothy.Murphy@doc.

Donna Longo DiMichele, M.A., M.S.L.S.

RI Office of Library and Information Services

One Capitol Hill, 2nd fl.

Providence, RI 02908-5803

(401) 222-1759 Fax 401.222.4195

OLIS Web: olis.

Texas

raúlrsalinas: The Cockroach Poet

raúlrsalinas, a literary luminary who has shared podiums and microphones with giants such as Miguel Piñero, Pedro Pietri, Oscar Zeta Acosta, John Trudell, Jose Montoya, Ernesto Cardenal and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, among many others, has also been a tireless crusader for human rights and social justice, and conducts writing clinics for at-risk youth in countless juvenile detention facilties and community centers nationwide.

For the last several decades he has mentored aspiring writers, both in and out of his humble shop in Austin, Texas, Resistence Bookstore.

Resistencia Bookstore

1801-A South First St.

Austin, TX 78704

(512) 416-8885





Inside Books

At the Inside Books Project, we work with prisoners to create change, both in their lives and in the system that has incarcerated them. Books will be the agents of that change.

In 2005, over 150,000 people were incarcerated in the state of Texas. Out of 106 prison facilities, only 85 were equipped with libraries. Many facilities have little or nothing to offer in important areas like African-American and Mexican-American history, GED and other standardized test training, coping with specific medical conditions, and art/craft instruction. The Inside Books Project fills that gap, providing prisoners with free books in these and other subject areas. Last year, we sent over 18,000 books to individual prisoners--and we're growing fast.

By means of education, we aim to help prisoners make successful transitions into society. At the same time, we stand outside the state apparatus as an important independent source of resources, information, and ideas. A good book earns a reader's trust and provokes reflection and inquisitiveness that better equips the reader for life in and out of society. As an organization, we try to emulate that approach. By responding to the curiosity and needs of individual prisoners, we aim to minimize bureaucracy and engage each prisoner's mind outside of the context of a "correctional system."

A wide range of studies agree that in-prison education lowers rates of recidivism, or the likelihood of a prisoner committing another crime after his or her release. (See "Post Correctional Education and Recidivism".) The Inside Books Project serves unmet needs in the education of all Texas prisoners. If a prisoner cannot access a book, or cannot access any books, we alone provide an open door to a universe of information. Inmates share the information and resources they receive through our efforts, thus creating informal communities of literacy and learning. We are always seeking new ways to help these communities, and to fulfill our mission of change.

c/o 12th St. Books

827 West 12th Street

Austin, TX 78701

512-647-4803

The Rhizome Collective

300 Allen Street

Austin, TX 78702

E-mail: contact@

Washington

Books to Prisoners

Books To Prisoners is a Seattle-based, all-volunteer, nonprofit organization that sends books to prisoners in the United States.  BTP believes that books are tools for learning and opening minds to new ideas and possibilities.  By sending books to prisoners, we hope to foster a love of reading and encourage the pursuit of knowledge and self-improvement.

Founded in the early 1970s and sponsored by Left Banks Books, BTP receives 600 to 800 requests for books each month. Volunteers work two evenings a week opening letters, finding books in our collection that correspond to the request, and wrapping and mailing parcels.  Because of continuing backlog of requests, prisoners sometimes wait up to six months to receive their books.

Books to Prisoners

c/o Left Bank Books

92 Pike Street, Box A

Seattle, WA 98101



Olympia Books to Prisoners

P.O. Box 912, Olympia, WA 98507

Voicemail: (360) 352-5460

Books To Prisoners - Olympia

Email

Bellingham Books to Prisoners

P.O. Box 1254, Bellingham, WA 98227

Email

Wisconsin

Jail Library Group Mission

To provide educational, recreational and community resource reading materials to the residents of the jail facilities in Dane County, Wisconsin.

Goals of the Jail Library Group

• To meet the educational, recreational and community resource reading needs of the jail residents.

• To locate and share with inmates, useful community resources that will help inmates or their families address and solve their needs.

• To educate the volunteers and the local community about issues related to incarceration, poverty, crime, justice and fairness that are a part of and affect our community, but of which many of us are not aware.

• To improve the criminal justice system by involving the community, through volunteer service, in the process.

• To provide a safe and constructive environment for diverse people to come together, share and learn from each other.



School of Library & Information Studies

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Room 4217 Helen C. White Hall

600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706

e-mail:JailLibraryGroup@

 

 

 

Foreign countries

Great Britain

British prisoners are taught to read in their own cells by their literate fellow inmates. Toe by Toe teaches inmates to read in their own cells by fellow inmates as a rewarding use of both prisoners’ time as well as to improve the self-esteem of both parties.



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