THE BOOKS 4 PRISONERS CREW | Provided free books to prisoners from 2001-2008

WARNING! this list is no longer maintained or updated - Last updated 5/07/08

The Below is a list of confirmed books to prisoners projects in the US. Though we do our best to keep addresses and program details updated we are not always made aware of individual programs specifics. Folks interested in reprinting this list or forwarding it on to an incarcerated loved one should check with the individual programs in question to confirm the accuracy of their listing.

APPALACHIAN PRISON BOOK PROJECT (APBP)
P.O. Box 601
Morgantown, WV 26501
appalachianpbp@gmail.com
Free books to prisoners in West Virginia, Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky, and Maryland.

ASHEVILLE PRISON BOOKS
C/o Downtown Books and News
67 N Lexington Ave
Asheville, NC 28801
For volunteer or info contact Erick: twothirds@riseup.net

BOOK 'EM
P.O. Box 71357
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
bookem@keromail.com
www.thomasmertoncenter.org/bookem.htm
www.prisoners.com/bookemi.html
Sends free books to prisoners in all states except Oregon and men in Texas. (ie, Will send to women in Texas).

BOOKS THROUGH BARS
4722 Baltimore Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19143
215-727-8170
www.booksthroughbars.org
Sends progressive political and educational materials at no charge to county, state and federal prisoners in the Mid Atlantic region (PA, NJ, NY, DE, MD, VA, WV). Also donates books to libraries & education programs in jails, prisons, and halfway houses. Request books by topic. No catalog. Donations including artwork and stamps greatly appreciated.

BOOKS THROUGH BARS - NYC
C/o Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St
New York, NY 10002
(212) 254-3697, ext. 326
www.abcnorio.org/affiliated/btb.html
Ships to prisoners nationwide. Specializes in political and history books. Also sends literary fiction and other educational books. Does not send religious literature. Donations of stamps and cash are appreciated. If you send a money order, please make it out to the groups fiscal sponsor, ABC No Rio.

BOOKS THRU BARS OF ITHACA
Second Floor
Autumn Leaves Bookstore
115 The Commons
Ithaca, NY 14850
www.btbithaca.org
An all-volunteer operated, community-based "grassroots" organization that receives and process dozens of requests from inmates. Sends books free of charge to prisoners in in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland.

BOOKS TO PRISONERS
C/o Left Bank Books
92 Pike St., Box A
Seattle, WA 98101
www.bookstoprisoners.net
Free books to prisoners to all states except CA. Request by subject, no religious materials or legal materials. donations appreciated. Special Note - Does not ship to prisons who require all books sent to be new.

CLEVELAND BOOKS 2 PRISONERS
P.O. Box 602440
Cleveland, OH 44102
clevelandbooks2prisoners@hotmail.com
Free books to prisoners in Ohio only.

CHICAGO BOOKS TO WOMEN IN PRISON
C/o Beyond Media Education
7013 N. Glenwood Ave
Chicago, IL 60626
http://www.chicagobwp.org
Free books to women prisoners in Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi and Ohio.

DC PRISONS BOOK PROJECT
P.O. Box 5243
Hyattsville, MD 20782
http://www.quixote.org/ej/bookstoprisons/
bookstoprisons@mutualaid.org
Free books to prisoners nationwide.

GAINESVILLE BOOKS FOR PRISONERS
P.O. Box 12164
Gainesville, FL 32604
http://www.civicmediacenter.org/links/2003/11/01/13.29.05.htm
Covers prisoners nationwide. Accepts Requests by topic of interest only.

INSIDE BOOKS PROJECT
C/o 12^th St. Books
827 West 12^th Street
Austin, TX 78701
www.insidebooksproject.org
Sends free books and literature to prisoners in Texas only. Send one 41 cent stamp for Texas prisoner focused newsletter. Accepts artwork donations for their yearly prisoner art show.

INTERNATIONALIST PRISON BOOKS COLLECTIVE
405 w. franklin st.
chapel hill, NC 27516
www.prisonbooks.info
New program that sends books to Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana.

LOUISIANA BOOKS 2 PRISONERS
831 Elysian Fields #143
New Orleans, LA 70117
books2prisoners@riseup.net
Ships free books to prisoners all over the US but focuses primarily on serving
 Inmates in Louisiana.

MIDWEST BOOKS TO PRISONERS
C/o Quimby's Bookstore
1321 North Milwaukee Ave. PMB #460
Chicago, IL 60622
www.freewebs.com/mwbtp
Free books to midwest prisoners.

MIDWEST PAGES TO PRISONERS PROJECT
C/o Boxcar Books
310A S. Washington St.
Bloomington, IN 47401
812-339-8710
http://www.pagestoprisoners.org/
Sends free books to prisoners in the following states AZ, ND, SD, NE, KS, OK, MN, IA, MO, AR, IN, OH, KY, TN, and FL. Sends up to 3 books at a time. Books can be requested every 2 months. Sends all subjects of fiction and non-fiction reading material. Priority is given to people requesting books from women's and youth facilities.

BOOKS TO OREGON PRISONERS
POB 11222
Portland, OR 97211
http://www.bookstooregonprisoners.org
Free books to Oregon prisoners only.

PRISON BOOK PROGRAM
C/o United First Parish Church
1306 Hancock St. Suite 100
Quincy, MA 02169
617-423-3298 (NO collect calls)
http://www.prisonbookprogram.org/
Covers prisoners in all states but CA, MD, MI, PA, or TX. Does not offer computer books, horror, romance, textbooks, true crime, or white supremacist materials. Publishes the National Prisoner Resource List free to prisoners nationwide on request.

PRISON BOOK PROJECT
C/o Food for Thought Books
P.O. Box 396
Amherst, MA 01004-0396
(413) 584-8975 ext. 208
www.prisonbooks.org
Serves prisoners in New England states (Maine, VT, NH, MA, CT, RI) and Texas only. Request books by topics of interest, not title. No mailing list or catalogue. No hardback books.

PRISON LITERATURE PROJECT
C/o Bound Together Bookstore
1369 Haight St.
San Francisco, CA 94117
No Texas requests. Request types of books-not specific titles, Stamps or donations greatly appreciated.

THE PRISON LIBRARY PROJECT
915 West Foothill Blvd. Suite C128
Claremont, CA 91711
Free books on self-help, personal and spiritual growth, wellness, and metaphysical books. No law books, technical, or GED. No catalogue. Free resource guide on request.

THE READERS CORNER
Prison Book Program
31 Montford Ave.
Asheville, NC 28801
prisonbooks31@hotmail.com
http://www.main.nc.us/prisonbooks/
Sends free books to prisoners in North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee only.

URBANA - CHAMPAIGN BOOKS TO PRISONERS PROJECT
C/o Spineless Books
PO Box 515
Urbana, IL 61803
www.books2prisoners.org
ucbtp@yahoo.com
ucbtp@yahoogroups.com (listserve)
Sends all types of books to state and federal prisoners in Illinois. Has a large selection of novels, but tries to stock popular genres such as African American history and lit, as well as dictionaries, though they're hard to maintain.

WISCONSIN BOOKS TO PRISONERS
1019 Williamson St. #B
Madison, WI 53703
608-262-9036
www.madisoninfoshop.org/wbtp/
Free books to prisoners in WI.

WOMENS PRISON BOOK PROJECT
C/o Arise Bookstore
2441 Lyndale Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55405
www.prisonactivist.org/wpbp
Ships to all states except OR, MI, CO, and WV. Free books to women prisoners only. No county jail requests. Does not ship hardback books. Free resource guide for women and transgender prisoners. Encourages women and transgender prisoners to write articles for their newsletter. Write for more details.

Groups that have been confirmed Inactive/Defunct

BOOKS THROUGH BARS - Salt Lake City, UT, E.G. SMITH DISTRO. Dayton, OH, EPIMETHIAN PRESS - Colorado Springs, CO, PRISONERS ADVOCACY NETWORK (PAN - OHIO) BOOKS4PRISONERS - Columbus, OH, INMATE BOOK SERVICE - Berlin, VT, THE GEORGE JACKSONS BOOKS TO PRISONERS PROJECT - Roswell, GA, SECRET SAILOR BOOKS - Bloomington, IN, THE MAOIST INTERNATIONALIST MOVEMENT (MIM) - LA, CA, CHARLOTTESVILLE PRISON BOOK PROJECT - Charlottesville, VA., EMMA GOLDMAN COLLECTIVE - Lafayette, IN, MONKEYS RETREAT BOOKSTORE - Columbus, OH, and ALKEFOLAW BOOKS TO PRISONERS C/o Ujamaa Books - Columbus, OH

Political Prisoner, Prisoner of War, Prison Rebel and Progessive Prisoners

SPECIFIC PRISONER SUPPORT CAMPAIGNS

Lynne Stewart - www.lynnestewart.org
Recently convicted on all charges and currently awaiting sentencing. Radical human rights attorney Lynne Stewart has been falsely accused of helping terrorists. On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, she was arrested and agents searched her Manhattan office for documents. She was arraigned before Manhattan federal Judge John Koetl. This is an obvious attempt by the U.S. government to silence dissent and install fear in those who would fight against the U.S. government's racism, seek to help Arabs and Muslims being prosecuted for free speech and defend the rights of all oppressed people.

International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal - www.mumia.org

Mumia is an award winning journalist on Pennsylvania's death row that the evidence says he didnt do. Don't just take our word for it, check it out yourself. Includes legal updates, specific support campaigns, Mumia's writings and more.

The National Coalition to Free the Angola Three -
http://www.prisonactivist.org/angola/
All three men -- Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox and Robert King Wilkerson � fought for prison reform in the early 1970s. As a result, they were targeted by prison officials who eventually framed them for crimes they did not commit. Each has remained principled and politically active in spite of their brutal, long-term confinement.

Ohio 7/ United Freedom Front - http://home.earthlink.net/~neoludd/ also

http://www.geocities.com/tom-manning/
In 1985-86, Raymond Luc Levasseur, Thomas Manning, Richard Williams - R.I.P., and Jaan Layman were tried and convicted for conspiracy and bombing unoccupied military and corporate facilities (there were no deaths/ injures). These United Freedom Front Actions were part of an effort to bring the public�s attention to corporate and governmental criminal activity in South Africa and Central America. Sentences ranged from 45 to 53 years in prison. Contains writings, updates, and supporter info. Jaan Layman has an aswome new online zine that can be viewed here - www.4strugglemag.org.

Sundiata Acoli Freedom Campaign - http://www.mumia.org/sundiata/

Sundiata is a Political Prisoner, a brilliant mathematician, artist and committed freedom fighter for the New Afrikan Nation. Ambushed on the New Jersey Turnpike with Assata Shakur and Zayd Malik Shakur, Sundiata has been unjustly incarcerated for 30 years. Contains writings and supporter updates. Find out more about Assata and the struggle to keep her free here www.assatashakur.org

Leonard Peltier Defense Committee - http://www.freepeltier.org/ also http://www.leonardpeltier.org/

Leonard Peltier, a citizen of the Anishinabe and Lakota Nations, is a father, a grandfather, an artist, a writer, and an Indigenous rights activist. He has spent more than twenty-six years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Amnesty International considers him a "political prisoner" who should be "immediately and unconditionally released."

Marilyn Buck - http://www.prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/marilynbuck

In 1973 she was convicted of purchasing two boxes of handgun ammunition and was given a ten year sentence. After serving four years in Federal prison in Alderson, West Virginia, she was granted a furlough and did not return. The following eight years she was underground.
In 1985 Marilyn was recaptured and tried for breaching another wall - she was convicted of conspiracy for the successful escape of Assata Shakur from her New Jersey prison. (Assata remains active from her exile in Cuba). Marilyn and her codefendents Dr. Mutulu Shakur and Sekou Odinga were also convicted of conspiracy to commit "armed bank robbery" in support of the New Afrikan Independence struggle. In 1988 she was given another ten years in the Resistance Conspiracy case, for "conspiracy to protest and alter government policies (the invasion of Grenada, intervention in Central America) through use of violence" against government and military property. She has been in prison for 17 years, with a total sentence of 80 years.

Jeffery "Free" Luers - www.freefreenow.org
In June 2001, 23 year old forest defense activist Jeffrey "Free" Luers was sentenced to 22 years and 8 months in prison for the burning of three Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV's) in Eugene, Oregon. To make a statement about global warming, Free and a friend named "Critter" set fire to 3 Sport Utility Vehicles at a car dealership. Their stated purpose was to raise awareness about global warming and the role that SUVs play in that process. Both activists took measures to make sure that no one would be injured as a result of their action and scouted the location for months beforehand. An arson specialist later confirmed that the action did not pose any threat to people based on its size and distance from any fuel source. Despite the fact that this action hurt no one, caused only $40,000 in damages and the cars were later resold, Jeff was sent to prison for a sentence considerably longer than those convicted of murder, kidnapping and rape in Oregon state.

Dr. Mutulu Shakur - www.mutulushakur.com
In March 1982, Dr. Shakur and 10 others were indicted by a federal grand jury under a set of U.S. conspiracy laws called "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization" (RICO) laws. These conspiracy laws were ostensibly developed to aid the government in its prosecution of organized crime figures; however, they have been used with varying degrees of success against revolutionary organizations. Dr. Shakur was charged with conspiracy and participation in a clandestine paramilitary unit that carried out actual and attempted expropriations from several banks. Eight (8) incidents were alleged to have occurred between December 1976 to October 1981. In addition he was charged with participation in the 1979 prison escape of Assata Shakur, who is now in exile in Cuba. (the question of Dr. Shakur being charged with participation when in fact they alleged he masterminded her escape creates the true fact of cointelpro).

Zolo Azania - www.zoloazania.org and

http://www.prairiefire.org/Zolo/support.html
Zolo Azania is one of the numerous African-Americans who await execution as a result of a racist criminal justice system. Moreover he is a politically conscious activist, who at the time of his arrest and capture in 1981, was actively involved in the movement for the self-determination of African-American people. The fact that he defined himself as a New Afrikan and was committed to the liberation and independence of Black people within the borders of the U.S., directly influenced the way the police, the prosecution, and the Indiana courts denied him a fair trial and fanned the flames of prejudice to obtain the death penalty.
Zolo was sentenced to death after his conviction for a 1981 bank robbery and the killing of a Gary Indiana police officer who was fatally wounded in an exchange of gun fire with three men who fled from the bank. Zolo was not arrested at the bank, but miles away walking unarmed down the street. The prosecution intimidated witnesses, suppressed favorable evidence, presented false eye-witness and expert testimony, and denied him the right to speak or present motions in his own behalf. Zolos death penalty conviction was recently overturned (for a third time!) in May of 2005.

Matt Lamont - http://www.freerampage.i8.com

Daniel McGowan - http://www.supportdaniel or http://www.myspace.com/danielmcgowan

Another Green Scare defendant. Daniel McGowan is an environmental and social justice activist, facing terrorism related charges in federal court.

The above represents just a small fraction of the Political Prisoners/Prisoners of War languishing behind bars in Americas gulags today, not to mention the thousands of progressive prisoners, prison rebels and jailhouse lawyers who stand in the face of oppression every day.

Please take the time to show these locked down brothers and sisters they are not forgotten!

AGITATE, EDUCATE, ORGANIZE TO BRING THEM HOME NOW!