Books through bars :  stories from the prison books movement / 
 Stories from the prison books movement. 
edited by Moira Marquis and Dave "Mac" Marquis. 
 - 260 pages :  illustrations (chiefly color) ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> Prison books : a love story /  Prison books : a lifeline /  We need you, dear reader : on banned books lists /  Until there is a world without prisons : books for LGBTQ people /  Knowing students inside /  Big House Books v. Hall /  An ongoing case of prison library censorship /  The case for contraband education and radical pedagogy in prison /  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 /  The genesis of communications in the National Prison Book Program Movement /  The national conference /  Independent bookstores and prison books programs /  Interview : Rod Coronado on being locked up and Native fun(draising) : the Halloween cover band show /  Interview : Daniel McGowan and political prisoners --  Creating a PBP /  Keepin' the dream alive : maintaining your prison books program /  Starting a university-based prison books program : pages for individuals in prison /  Forbidden knowledge /  The high costs of free prison tablet programs /  Interview : Zoe Lawrence on LGBTQ peoples inside --  Going postal : censorship, policy, and correspondence rejection with Texas prisons /  List of prison books programs by state.  Moira Marquis and Dave "Mac" Marquis --  Victoria Law --  Michelle Dillon --  Melissa Charenko --  Lauren Braun-Strumfels --  Beth Orlansky and Robert McDuff --  Rebecca Ginsburg --  James King --  Ellen Skirvin --  Andy Chan --  Jodi Lincoln --  Patrick Kukucka --  Patrick Kukucka --  Drawn by Nic Cassette and written by Moira Marquis --  Julie Schneyer --  Julia Chin --  Kwaneta Harris --  Valerie Surrett --  Paul Tardie --  Megan Sweeney --  Why we need prison books programs.  Origin stories.  Community.  How to start a prison books program.  The future of prison books.  Afterword /  Appendix. 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780820365879 0820365874 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>99996146455 40032279058 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2023035285 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Book donations--United States.<br/>Imprisonment<br/>Prisoners--Books and reading--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>365/.66