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Essays

Prison Book Program occasionally will issue an essay topic which accompanies the books we distribute. We invite you to read some notable responses:

Books Have the Power to Change Lives

Books are Doorways

Inmate looks forward to library days and starting new books

Prisoners Educate Themselves With Books

Help needed to prepare for GED

Books Give Valuable Skills

Books Are a Conduit to a Better Life

Using The Dictionary For Help In College Correspondence Classes

Through reading, I found myself

Prisoner works through frustration with writing

To Get a Piece of Mail is Very Uplifting

Books are better than any counseling we can receive

A Prison “Book Club”: To Read Is To Grow/Know

How the Diary of Anne Frank Changed My Life

The importance of education in the prison system

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Quincy, MA 02169

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 Financial donations are the single factor that limits the number of people we can serve.  Just $3 is the average cost of mailing a package of carefully selected books from our library!

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Prison Book Program
c/o Lucy Parsons Bookstore
1306 Hancock Street
Suite 100
Quincy, MA 02169

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