Prison Book Program In The News

A Massachusetts-Based Effort to Send Books Behind Bars

September 2025, Governing

Free books from Quincy’s Prison Book Program bring ‘a beacon of light’ to incarcerated people

August 2025, GBH News

Quincy nonprofit sends personalized books and reading material to people in prison

June 2024, WCVB Channel 5’s Chronicle

Wisconsin Books to Prisoners Goes Back to Square One

April 4, 2025, Tone Madison

Several states barring nonprofit network from sending free books to prisoners, February 12, 2025, NPR Morning Edition

February 12, 2025, NPR Morning Edition

Minnesota DOC restricting how incarcerated adults in the state can purchase books

December 19, 2024, KSTP Channel 5

How difficult is it to read in prison? It varies by each Massachusetts facility, advocates say,

August 21, 2024, Boston.com

Books as Decarceral

November 2, 2023, Inquest.org

Retired Professor Runs Prison Book Program Giving Inmates Opportunities To Learn,

May 2022, CBS Boston

Recommended Reading

Reading behind bars, and beyond barriers,

April 19, 2025, Jackie Long for the Los Angeles Review of Books

Books give incarcerated people access to the world, but tablets are often used to wall them off

September 16, 2024, Prison Policy Initiative

The books banned in your state’s prisons

December 2022, The Marshall Project

Reading while incarcerated saved me. Why are prisons banning books?

August 17, 2022, Christopher Blackwell for New York Times Opinion