Appalachian Prison Book Project
Challenging mass incarceration through books, education, and community engagement.
In The Washington Post’s “Book Club” newsletter, critic Ron Charles wrote about access to books in prisons. He highlighted work by Prison Legal News, PEN America, the Prison Policy Initiative, and APBP. Connecting the Dots What I especially appreciate about…
Book clubs are places of gathering and welcoming; analyzing and discussing; writing and dreaming. Attendees read new things, meet new people, and tackle new ideas. These clubs are iconic and mobile, and they can happen anywhere. Even behind bars. From…
An overwhelming and exciting majority of the hundreds of letters we receive each week are directly from incarcerated people in Appalachia, but not all of our correspondence is from the people behind bars. Sometimes, we get letters or emails from…
Read More Religion Behind Bars: A Request to Create a Rastafarian Library
APBP is taking on our next big challenge: creating and supporting credit-bearing college courses for incarcerated students. And we need your help. Our organization began in 2004 with a handful of books being mailed into prisons. Word spread. More volunteers…
APBP was recently featured in BuzzFeed News! Read the article, This Appalachian Nonprofit Puts Books in the Hands of Inmates Who Need Them, to learn about how we got started, what we do, and how we do it.