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Books through bars : stories from the prison books movement / edited by Moira Marquis and Dave "Mac" Marquis.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2024]Copyright date: ℗♭2024Description: 260 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780820365879
  • 0820365874
Other title:
  • Stories from the prison books movement
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 365/.66 23/eng/20231012
Contents:
Prison books : a love story / Moira Marquis and Dave "Mac" Marquis -- Why we need prison books programs. Prison books : a lifeline / Victoria Law -- We need you, dear reader : on banned books lists / Michelle Dillon -- Until there is a world without prisons : books for LGBTQ people / Melissa Charenko -- Knowing students inside / Lauren Braun-Strumfels -- Big House Books v. Hall / Beth Orlansky and Robert McDuff -- An ongoing case of prison library censorship / Rebecca Ginsburg -- The case for contraband education and radical pedagogy in prison / James King -- Origin stories. Interview : Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin and the movement's beginnings - Asheville Prison Books Program : an oral history -- Dave "Mac" Marquis in conversation with Sarah West and Annie Masaoka : Appalachian Prison Book Project origins / Ellen Skirvin -- Community. The genesis of communications in the National Prison Book Program Movement / Andy Chan -- The national conference / Jodi Lincoln -- Independent bookstores and prison books programs / Patrick Kukucka -- Interview : Rod Coronado on being locked up and Native fun(draising) : the Halloween cover band show / Patrick Kukucka -- Interview : Daniel McGowan and political prisoners -- How to start a prison books program. Creating a PBP / Drawn by Nic Cassette and written by Moira Marquis -- Keepin' the dream alive : maintaining your prison books program / Julie Schneyer -- Starting a university-based prison books program : pages for individuals in prison / Julia Chin -- The future of prison books. Forbidden knowledge / Kwaneta Harris -- The high costs of free prison tablet programs / Valerie Surrett -- Interview : Zoe Lawrence on LGBTQ peoples inside -- Going postal : censorship, policy, and correspondence rejection with Texas prisons / Paul Tardie -- Afterword / Megan Sweeney -- Appendix. List of prison books programs by state.
Summary: "Co-edited by two activists with deep experience in organizing prison books programs (PBPs), Books Behind Bars introduces readers to PBPs and their decentralized organization. PBPs are a grassroots-level and nationwide activist movement challenging the largest prison industry in the world by refusing to let incarcerated people remain isolated and forgotten. Operating on shoestring budgets, will all-volunteer workforces and donated libraries, books to prisoner programs are examples of ordinary people acting to undermine the isolation and judgment of incarceration. Although there are currently fifty-three books to prisoners groups serving in all fifty states, these programs remain relatively unknown. The goal of this book is to bring awareness to this diffuse and long-standing social movement and offer readers a way to get involved. In addition to highlighting voices from PBPs throughout the United States, the volume also includes essays, images, and artwork from independent bookstore owners, formerly and currently incarcerated folks, activists, artists, journalists, volunteers, organizers, and scholars"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references.

Prison books : a love story / Moira Marquis and Dave "Mac" Marquis -- Why we need prison books programs. Prison books : a lifeline / Victoria Law -- We need you, dear reader : on banned books lists / Michelle Dillon -- Until there is a world without prisons : books for LGBTQ people / Melissa Charenko -- Knowing students inside / Lauren Braun-Strumfels -- Big House Books v. Hall / Beth Orlansky and Robert McDuff -- An ongoing case of prison library censorship / Rebecca Ginsburg -- The case for contraband education and radical pedagogy in prison / James King -- Origin stories. Interview : Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin and the movement's beginnings - Asheville Prison Books Program : an oral history -- Dave "Mac" Marquis in conversation with Sarah West and Annie Masaoka : Appalachian Prison Book Project origins / Ellen Skirvin -- Community. The genesis of communications in the National Prison Book Program Movement / Andy Chan -- The national conference / Jodi Lincoln -- Independent bookstores and prison books programs / Patrick Kukucka -- Interview : Rod Coronado on being locked up and Native fun(draising) : the Halloween cover band show / Patrick Kukucka -- Interview : Daniel McGowan and political prisoners -- How to start a prison books program. Creating a PBP / Drawn by Nic Cassette and written by Moira Marquis -- Keepin' the dream alive : maintaining your prison books program / Julie Schneyer -- Starting a university-based prison books program : pages for individuals in prison / Julia Chin -- The future of prison books. Forbidden knowledge / Kwaneta Harris -- The high costs of free prison tablet programs / Valerie Surrett -- Interview : Zoe Lawrence on LGBTQ peoples inside -- Going postal : censorship, policy, and correspondence rejection with Texas prisons / Paul Tardie -- Afterword / Megan Sweeney -- Appendix. List of prison books programs by state.

"Co-edited by two activists with deep experience in organizing prison books programs (PBPs), Books Behind Bars introduces readers to PBPs and their decentralized organization. PBPs are a grassroots-level and nationwide activist movement challenging the largest prison industry in the world by refusing to let incarcerated people remain isolated and forgotten. Operating on shoestring budgets, will all-volunteer workforces and donated libraries, books to prisoner programs are examples of ordinary people acting to undermine the isolation and judgment of incarceration. Although there are currently fifty-three books to prisoners groups serving in all fifty states, these programs remain relatively unknown. The goal of this book is to bring awareness to this diffuse and long-standing social movement and offer readers a way to get involved. In addition to highlighting voices from PBPs throughout the United States, the volume also includes essays, images, and artwork from independent bookstore owners, formerly and currently incarcerated folks, activists, artists, journalists, volunteers, organizers, and scholars"-- Provided by publisher.