There are many times when we cannot accept a book donation. Often, it's because prisons and jails won't allow them.

Appalachian Prison Book Project
Challenging mass incarceration through books, education, and community engagement.
There are many times when we cannot accept a book donation. Often, it's because prisons and jails won't allow them.
On January 23, 2020, Dwayne Betts announced that his memoir A Question of Freedom, which chronicles Betts’s time as a young man in prison and how reading saved his life, was officially banned from Virginia state prisons. Last semester, I…
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…
Join the Appalachian Prison Book Project and PEN America during Banned Books Week 2019 to learn more about censorship and banned books in prison. A Rise in Prison Censorship Departments of Corrections (DOCs) often claim that book bans and book…