"Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement" Released March 15
"Books Through Bars" is a ground-breaking book about the groups and individuals who have organized around the principle that all people...
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Jul 21, 20231 min read
We're Having a Picnic July 30
Join Books to Prisoners and Left Bank Books as we celebrate our 50th Anniversary together with a potluck picnic in Volunteer Park. The...
May 13, 20231 min read
How the Grateful Dead Played a Part in BTP Becoming a 501(c)3 Nonprofit
Author Andy Chan has been with BtP since 1994. Books to Prisoners is federally registered 501(c)3 nonprofit and has been since 2009...
Mar 31, 20231 min read
Comrade Animals – Pluto & Juno
From 2013 to 2018, Books to Prisoners filled orders out of a basement work space we rented from the University Christian Church at NE...
Mar 3, 20231 min read
Left Bank Books is Doing an Archive Project!
Books to Prisoners was one of the first projects the collective that established Left Bank Books undertook after it opened the bookstore...
Feb 16, 20232 min read
The Very Long Year
Andy Chan has volunteered with Book to Prisoners since 1994. This is the first in a series of anecdotes from our history to commemorate...
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