Books 2 Prisoners |
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New Orleans Books 2 Prisoners is a 100% not-for-profit effort to correspond with Louisiana inmates and to send reading materials free of cost. We mostly carry books and texts by people of color and feminist revolutionaries, fiction-writers, and historians--but we also carry more traditional materials such as dictionaries and books on getting your GED, self-help, health, art, trade-fiction, and anarchist, Marxist and leftist theory. Our short-term goals are to encourage literacy, to make prison-life more endurable, and to support prisoner interests to the best of our abilities. It is also a space where individuals can come to educate themselves and discuss the prison industrial complex and prison-life. It is not our place to necessarily "radicalize" prisoners, but rather to use our resources/privileges as the un-incarcerated to pass along materials on requested subjects. Books 2 Prisoners finds it necessary to fight the prison industrial complex, and is one effort within the larger prison-abolition movement.
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