Carceral Library Services Coalition

Stay tuned for an announcement about an exciting collaboration with The Claremont Forum's Prison Library Project(PLP).

The Prison Library Project is "a volunteer-driven program focused on delivering books and educational resources to incarcerated individuals. Our mission is to address the pressing issue of insufficient literacy skills and limited access to reading materials among incarcerated men and women nationwide. Since we took over the original Project in 1985 (we became the Claremont Forum in 1993), we've mailed over half a million books to correctional facilities across the United States."

"The Prison Library Project (PLP) receives over 500 letters each week from inmates in more than 400 state and federal prisons, as well as detention centers across the United States.

Each year, we mail over 30,000 books directly to incarcerated individuals. In addition to supporting individual inmates, we provide boxes of books to prison librarians, educators, and chaplains to help expand educational resources within correctional facilities."

Or check CarceralLibraryServicesCollection.org(currently under construction) for updates in the future.