Seattle nonprofit mailing free books to incarcerated people in the United States. Advocating for access to education & communication in facilities since 1973.
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ALT An open blue door, looking through to an empty room with an open orange door.
ALT A large, empty gray room with a pile of boards on the ground.
ALT Festive gold, red, and green baubles on a wood table, including small gold ornaments, a pine bough, and a red envelope. A white sheet of paper is on top of the red envelope. The white sheet of paper has the signatures of Kate Reading and Michael Kramer.
ALT Picture of a person in orange jumpsuit with a book in hands. Words from people in prison, centering on the impact of books, are written on the left. This image is taken from the page for the petition.
ALT Promotional graphic for Giving Tuesday 2024. Tan background. At the top, two hands hold a Polaroid with the logo for Books to Prisoners. The logo for Giving Tuesday is on the side. Below the hands, in squiggly blue font: "Give the gift of reading". The date of Giving Tuesday (December 3, 2024) and a link to the website of Books to Prisoners (www.bookstoprisoners.net) is written at the bottom.
ALT Graphic thanking The Stitch Crypt for fundraising for Books to Prisoners. Background is yellow with red graphics mimicking cross stitches around the border and as hearts. The logo for The Stitch Crypt (a skull with scissors and a needle) is in the center. Gray text in a funky font above and below the logo reads: "$5,000 raised for incarcerated readers/Thank you".
ALT Promo graphic for Spellbound Stitches Volume 3: The Bookmark Book.
ALT Notification of rejection of a book by a Texas prison. Title of publication: Black Boy by Richard Wright. An X is marked next to "publication contains material that a reasonable person would construct as written solely for the purpose of communicating information designed to achieve a breakdown of prisons through offender disruption such as strikes, riots or security threat group activity." The final decision of the publication review committee is marked to allow the incarcerated person to receive the book.
ALT Image with three tan, brown, and red ovals with white text above, below, and inside each oval. From top to bottom, the text reads: "THANK YOU!!!/ $6,913 new books donated during Prison Banned Books Week/ / 100% matching grant funds/ =/ $13,826 for new books for incarcerated readers". Background of image is a slightly out-of-focus bookcase.