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General Resource List (Updated Oct 2020) Page 1 of 4 LGBT Books to Prisoners General Resource List (updated Oct 2020) Page 1 of 4 FREE READING MATERIALS (In general, please request topics of interest and not GROUNDWORKS, BOOKS 4 PRISONERS specific titles or authors.) 0323 UCSD Old Student Center • La Jolla, CA 92037 - Books to incarcerated people nationwide. APPALACHIAN PRISON BOOK PROJECT P.O. Box 601 • Morgantown, WV 26507 - Books to HUMAN KINDNESS FOUNDATION people in KY, MD, OH, TN, VA, WV prisons. P.O. Box 61619 • Durham, NC 27715 - Spiritual books to incarcerated people nationwide. ASHEVILLE PRISON BOOKS PROGRAM c/o Downtown Books and News, 67 N. Lexington Ave INSIDE BOOKS PROJECT • Asheville, NC 28801 - Books to people in NC and SC P.O. Box 301029 • Austin, Texas 78703 - Books to people in TX prisons. prisons. ATHENS BOOKS TO PRISONERS LAGAI- QUEER INSURRECTION/OOC 30 1st St • Athens, OH 45701 - Books to people in OH 3543 18th St. #26 • San Francisco, CA 94110 - prisons. Publishes newsletter UltraViolet. Sends to incarcerated people nationwide. BIG HOUSE BOOKS P.O. Box 55586 • Jackson, MS 39296 - Books to LOUISIANA BOOKS 2 PRISONERS people in MS prisons. 3157 Gentilly Blvd #141• New Orleans, LA 70122 - Books to people in LA, AL, AK, MS prisons. BOOK’EM c/o Thomas Merton Center, 5129 Penn Ave • LOUISVILLE BOOKS TO PRISONERS Pittsburgh, PA 15224 - Books to people in PA prisons. McQuixote Books & Coffee 1512 Portland Ave #1 • Louisville, KY 40203 Attn: Louisville Books to BOOKS THROUGH BARS Prisoners - Serves people across U.S.. 4722 Baltimore Ave • Philadelphia, PA 19143 - Books to people in PA, NJ, NY, DE, MD, VA, WV prisons. MIDWEST PAGES TO PRISONERS PO Box 1324 • Bloomington, IN 47402 - Books to CALIFORNIA PRISON FOCUS people in AR, IA, IN, KS, MN, MO, ND, NE, OK, and 1904 Franklin St. Suite 507 • Oakland, CA 94612 - SD prisons. Publishes a quarterly Magazine, Prison Focus, distributed free to people in Security Housing Unit NYC BOOKS THROUGH BARS (solitary confineMent), $8 a year to other people in ℅ Bluestockings bookstore • 172 Allen St. • New prison. York, NY 10002 - Sends books to incarcerated people in all states except AL, FL, LA, MA, MI, MS, NC, PA, CHICAGO BOOKS TO WOMEN IN PRISON OH, and WI. Priority is NY. c/o RFUMC 4511 N. Hermitage Ave • Chicago, IL 60640 - Books to woMen and trans woMen in state OPEN BOOK PRISON BOOK PROGRAM prisons in AZ, CA, FL, IL, IN, KY, MS, OH, and 1040 N. Guillemard St. • Pensacola FL, 32501 - Sends woMen housed in all federal prisons. books to people in FL prisons only. CLEVELAND BOOKS 2 PRISONERS PORTLAND BOOKS TO PRISONERS c/o Guide to Kulchur 5900 Detroit Ave. • Cleveland, c/o Left Bank Books 92 Pike St. Box A • Seattle, WA OH 44102 - Books to people in OH prisons only. 98101 - Books to incarcerated people in all states, eXcept men’s prisons in CA. CRITICAL RESISTANCE 1904 Franklin St., Suite 504 • Oakland, CA 94612 - P.O.Z MAGAZINE, Smart + Strong Produces quarterly newspaper, “The Abolitionist.” Do 212 West 35th St., 8th Floor • New York, NY 10001- not contact for legal help. 2508 - Free subscription to any HIV+ person who can't afford it. DC BOOKS TO PRISONS PROJECT P.O. Box 34190 • Washington, DC 20043-4190 - PRISON BOOK COLLECTIVE Books to incarcerated people in all states eXcept CT, IL, P.O. Box 625 • Carrboro, NC 27510 - Books to people FL, MA, ME, MI, NJ, NH, NY, OR, PA, RI, VT, WA, in AL and NC prisons, and zines nationwide. WI. LGBT Books to Prisoners General Resource List (updated Oct 2020) Page 2 of 4 PRISON BOOK PROGRAM TRANZMISSION PRISON PROJECT ℅ Lucy Parsons Bookstore, 1306 Hancock St., Suite P.O. Box 1874 • Asheville, NC 28802 - Offer books, 100 • Quincy, MA 02169 - Serves all states but CA, IL, zines, inforMation, resources and pen pals to MD, MI, NV, and TX. Publishes the National Prisoner LGBTQQIA people in prisons nationwide. Resource List free to incarcerated people nationwide on UC BOOKS TO PRISONERS, Box 515 • Urbana, IL request. 61803 - Books to people in IL prisons only. THE PRISON LIBRARY PROJECT WOMEN'S PRISON BOOK PROJECT c/o Claremont Forum, 586 West 1st St. • Claremont, c/o Boneshaker Books 2002 23rd Ave S • CA 91711 - Reading Materials to inMates nationwide. Minneapolis, MN 55404 - Books to incarcerated PRISONERS LITERATURE PROJECT woMen and transgender people in prison locations we c/o Bound Together Books, 1369 Haight St. • San can verify. Francisco, CA 94117 - Books to incarcerated people nationwide, except TX. LEGAL + OTHER INFO PROVIDENCE BOOKS THRU BARS, INC. ACLU LGBT PROJECT and HIV PROJECT ℅ Paper Nautilus 5 Angell St. • Providence, RI 02906 125 Broad St., 18th Floor • New York, NY 10004 - - Books to incarcerated people nationwide. Experts in constitutional law and civil rights, specializing in seXual orientation, gender identity, and READ BETWEEN THE BARS-Arizona HIV. c/o Daily Planet Publishing, P.O. Box 44014 • Tucson, AZ 85733-4014 - Serves people in AZ prisons. BLACK AND PINK, 2406 Fowler Ave. Suite 316 • Omaha, NE 68111 - The Black & Pink Newsletter is SINISTER WISDOM for, by, and about queers currently or forMerly in prison. 2333 McIntosh Road • Dover, FL 33527 - Send your thoughts, articles, poems, ideas, feedback! Multicultural lesbian art and literary journal. B&P also coordinates a pen pal prograM. Subscription free to women in prison. CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR WOMEN SLINGSHOT COLLECTIVE PRISONERS, 4400 Market St. • Oakland, CA 94608 P.O. Box 3051. • Berkeley, CA 94703 - Slingshot is a - Visits people in Central California WoMen’s Facility in quarterly, independent, radical newspaper published in Chowchilla and California Institution for WoMen in the East Bay since 1988 by the Slingshot Collective. Corona, CA; publishes The Fire Inside (free to all Subscriptions are free to incarcerated people nationwide. incarcerated people); and sends resource guides inside. Back issues are $1. CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS SOUTH CHICAGO ABC ZINE DISTRO 666 Broadway, 7th Floor • New York, NY 10012 - The P.O. Box 721 • Homewood, IL 60430 - Political and Center for Constitutional Rights is dedicated to anarchist zines to incarcerated people nationwide. advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the SURVIVORS MANUAL: SURVIVING IN United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration SOLITARY, by Bonnie Kerness, 5th Edition, June of Human Rights. 2012, 94 pages, AFSC Prison Watch Project, 89 CITIZENS UNITED FOR REHABILITATION OF Market St., 6th Fl • Newark, NJ 07102 - Free to people ERRANTS (CURE), P.O. Box 2310 • Washington, in prison, $3 for all others. In this collection, people DC 20013-2310 - Organizes incarcerated people, their currently or forMerly held in isolation describe their faMilies, and other concerned citizens to achieve reforms conditions and their daily lives. They also write about in the criminal justice systeM. CURE has a presence in how they struggle to keep Mind, body, and soul together 40 states. Write for complete listing or addresses of state in an environMent that is designed to break them down. chapters. Many also analyze the political, economic, and social forces that shape their situation. DISABILITY RIGHTS EDUCATION DEFENSE FUND, 3075 Adeline St., Suite 210 • Berkeley, CA TN PRISON BOOKS PROJECT (TPBP) 94703 - Provides legal and other types of referrals to PO Box 22846 • 901 Broadway • Nashville, TN 37202 incarcerated people with disability issues. Does not Sends books to those incarcerated in TN with a special provide individual representation. emphasis on LGBTQ people and woMen. LGBT Books to Prisoners General Resource List (updated Oct 2020) Page 3 of 4 GLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS POWER INSIDE, 325 East 25th St. • Baltimore, MD (GLAD) 18 Tremont, Suite 950 • Boston, MA 02108 - 21218 - Services to women including trans women and HIV and LGBT prison issues, has New England- trans men. Offers support and advocacy for those who centered resource guide. Will refer out non-New are incarcerated, homeless, addicted, or in the sex trade. England prison issues. PRISON ACTIVIST RESOURCE CENTER JUST DETENTION INTERNATIONAL P.O. Box 70447 • Oakland, CA 94612 - Produces a (formerly Stop Prisoner Rape) 3325 Wilshire Blvd., directory that is free to incarcerated people upon request. Suite 340 • Los Angeles, CA 90010 - Help stop seXual Seeks to work in solidarity with currently and forMerly assault and harassMent in U.S. correctional institutions. incarcerated people and their friends and faMilies. Anyone who has eXperienced any forM of seXual harM PRISON LAW OFFICE in custody—seXual harassment, seX in eXchange for General Delivery • San Quentin, CA 94964 - Provides protection, sexual assault etc.—is encouraged to contact free legal services to people in California state prisons, JDI for a packet of information. Write via confidential and occasionally to California state parolees. Assistance legal mail to Cynthia Totten, Esq, CA Attorney Reg. is generally limited to cases regarding conditions of #199266 at the address above. confinement. Further, the office does not typically assist LAMBDA LEGAL, Southern Regional Office or represent prisoners in lawsuits in which money 730 Peachtree St., NE Suite 640 • Atlanta, GA 30308- damages are the priMary objective. Instead, the office 1210 - Provides services related to the civil rights of focuses on cases in which a change in conditions is LGBT people and people with HIV through iMpact sought. litigation, education, and public policy work. PRISONS FOUNDATION MASSACHUSETTS TRANSGENDER POLITICAL 2512 Virginia Ave. NW, #58043 • Washington, DC COALITION, P.O. Box 960784 • Boston, MA 02196 - 20037 - Promotes arts in prison and alternatives to Seeking experiences and suggested policy changes from incarceration. Will publish inMates’ books for free. MA-based trans people in prison through the Offers dictionaries for $3.95. Has yearly play/Musical *Transgender Prisoner Questionnaire*. Write for copy. writing contest and several galleries. NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS PROJECT INFORM, 1375 Mission St. • San 870 Market St. Suite 370 • San Francisco, CA 94102 - Francisco, CA 94103-2621 - Provides HIV hotline at Provides legal inforMation and resources, including 800-822-7422, and Hep C hotline at 877-435-7443.
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