For the past six weeks, APBP volunteers have been working to understand the terms and implications of a contract signed by the WV Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation (WVDCR) with the private telecom company Global Tel Link (GTL). Our concern…
Category: Updates
The Prison Book Club Syllabus: Learning, Listening, Inspiring
The men’s book club at Hazelton is about to have its third meeting, and already, the group has had such an impact on us. A Promising Start Everyone was nervous on our first day—no matter how many book clubs we…
The Start of a New Prison Book Club
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…
Total Books Mailed
We mailed more books to imprisoned people in 2018 than in any previous year -- more than 5,000. Here are the numbers as of October. Thanks to everyone who makes this work possible. We are excited to grow as a…
the Kite Runner
The Women's Book Club at Hazelton had a fantastic meeting Monday morning. It is impossible to convey how much energy and love propel these discussions. All i know (katy here) is how fortunate i feel every time we meet. Our…
at long last–APBP t-shirts!
Outgoing Books
We are busy as ever this summer!
APBP’s First Work-Study Student
Kristin DeVault is a sophomore at West Virginia University, who grew up in Mason County, West Virginia. Kristin transferred to WVU last semester from Fairmont State to pursue a degree in Social Work and minors in Communications and American Politics…
what does it mean to do time?
Last week the women's prison book club talked about We're All Doing Time, a guide from the 1970s about meditation, yoga, struggle, what it means to be calm and to be free. It was beautiful.
a history of books
The first page of APBP's first notebook of outgoing mail, followed by the first page of APBP's most recent notebook (volume 4!) We've been doing this for 13 years and have mailed over 25,000 books and really like this tiger.