RESOURCES: COMMUNITY AGENCIES
Books Through Bars Founded in the late 1980s and formally incorporated as an organization in 2000, Books Through Bars was established to address the paucity of educational resources and programming made available to prisoners hoping to use the time of their imprisonment to effect positive change in their lives. By distributing free educational materials to prisoners, Books Through Bars facilitates prisoner education, thereby promoting successful community re-integration. Because successful community reintegration requires transformation within and outside of prison walls, Books Through Bars utilizes our book distribution service as the foundation on which we build innovative programs designed to engage a broad cross-section of the general public in thinking critically about issues of imprisonment.
Pennsylvania Prison Society The Pennsylvania Prison Society advocates for a humane, just and restorative correctional system and promotes a rational approach to criminal justice issues. They provide programs and services to incarcerated men and women, their families and ex-offenders. They also work on public educational initiatives and community trainings.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center
Links on Incarceration USA/Justice
American Civil Liberties Union
