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Prison Book Program is an American non-profit organization that sends free books to people in prison. [1] While the organization is based in Massachusetts, it mails packages of books to people in prisons in 45 U.S. states, as well as Puerto Rico and Guam. [2] The program receives letters from people in prison asking for specific titles or ...
Background. The first Books to Prisoners projects were founded in the early 1970s. These included Seattle's Books to Prisoners, Boston's Prison Book Program, and the Prison Library Project which was founded in Durham, North Carolina but relocated to Claremont, California in 1986. Since then, dozens of prison book programs have been established ...
Website. cbwp .org. Chicago Books to Women in Prison (CBWP) is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization that provides free books to incarcerated women in state and federal prisons across the United States. On average, around 3,000 packages are sent per year, pulled from a collection that averages around 10,000 donated books.
For college senior Nana Ampofo, an unconventional book club inside one of the nation’s largest jails has transformed her career ambitions. Each week, the 22-year-old drives a van of her DePaul ...
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Website. www .booksthroughbars .org. Books Through Bars is an American organization that works to provide quality reading material to prisoners in Pennsylvania and surrounding states. New Society Publishers of Philadelphia founded Books Through Bars in 1990. [4] Books Through Bars was separately incorporated as a nonprofit organization on March ...
Hybristophilia. Hybristophilia is a paraphilia involving sexual interest in and attraction to those who commit crimes. [ 1] The term is derived from the Greek word hubrizein ( ὑβρίζειν ), meaning "to commit an outrage against someone" (ultimately derived from hubris ὕβρις, "hubris"), and philo, meaning "having a strong affinity ...
Most nine year olds spend their hard-earned allowance on silly things, but Tyler Fugett wanted to spend his on something that would last.