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Inside Books Project Resource Guide INSIDE BOOKS PROJECT RESOURCE GUIDE ABOUT INSIDE BOOKS PROJECT 2 LEGAL RESOURCES 16 CONTESTING BOOK DENIALS 2 L-G-B-T RESOURCES 20 Artist And Writer Resources 2 PAROLE & PRE-RELEASE 21 BOOKS-TO-PRISONERS PROJECTS 3 PEN PAL PROGRAMS 23 DEATH PENALTY RESOURCES 6 PRISONER SUPPORT 24 EDUCATION 7 PUBLICATIONS & NEWSLETTERS 27 FAMILY RESOURCES 8 RELIGIOUS & SPIRITUAL 30 HEALTH RESOURCES 10 RESOURCES FOR VETERANS 32 IMMIGRATION RESOURCES 12 RESOURCES FOR WOMEN 33 INFORMACIÓN EN ESPAÑOL 14 Updated January 2018 About Inside Books Project censor a publication, the appeal goes to do what they can to answer requests for the Directors Review Committee and/or assistance promptly, but it may take a long Based in Austin, Texas, Inside Books the Mail System Coordinators Panel in time. Accepts collect calls. Phone or write. Project is an all-volunteer, nonprofi t Huntsville. Pages cited by the mailroom as organization that sends free books and inappropriate are reviewed and if the book WOMEN FOR SOBRIETY educational materials to people in Texas is denied, it takes a permanent place on POBOX 618 prisons. Inside Books Project works to the banned book list. QUAKERTWON, PA 18951 promote reading, literacy, and education SEND SASE. INFO. & WOMEN among incarcerated individuals and to If the panel choose to censor the book, a CENTERED APPROACH TO DRUG & educate the general public on issues of mailroom offi cial is responsible for notifying ALCOHOL RECOVERY. incarceration. you and informing you of the appeals PEN PAL PROGRAM ALSO. process. Many books are banned simply INSIDE BOOKS PROJECT because they are not appealed, and this WOMEN ORGANIZED TO RESPOND c/o 12th Street Books means the book will be denied to everyone TO LIFE-THREATENING DISEASES 827 W. 12th Street else in the TDCJ. We encourage you to (WORLD) Austin TX 78701 contest your publication denials, not only 389 30th St. (512) 655-3121 (voicemail only) for your own sake but for other prisoners Oakland CA 94609 [email protected] who may request the same title. To contest (510) 986-0340, www.womenhiv.org insidebooksproject.org denials, write Ombudsman Coordinator, Write for information and referrals PO Box 99, Huntsville TX 77342-0099 or concerning AIDS and other life threatening [email protected] About this Resource Guide diseases. They also send a free quarterly newsletter with treatment information and Book denials in a federal unit may be advocacy tips This Resource Guide is sent free of charge easier to challenge. According to Federal to any prisoner in the United States. prison policy, “when a publication is found Inmates in Texas can request to receive a unacceptable ... the warden shall permit WOMEN’S PRISON ASSOCIATION AND Resource Guide along with a request for the prisoner an opportunity to review this HOME books. Prisoners in other states can write material for purposes of fi ling an appeal. c/o G. Lerner, 110 Second Ave. to the address listed above to request a New York City, NY 10003 Resource Guide. Artist And Writer Resources wpaonline.org (646) 292-7742 AMERICAN DISSIDENT Inside Books Project thanks all the Women only. Assists women being released 217 Commerce Rd. organizations and people listed within for with obtaining housing, healthcare, etc Barnstable MA 02630 their assistance with this guide! Please Considers for publication English, Spanish, send corrections or updates to: or French poems and essays (650 words) WOMEN’S PRISON BOOK PROJECT that portray life in prisons for an outside Inside Books Project c/o Boneshaker Books audience. Write for guidelines. Sorry, no free ATTN: Resource Guide Updates 2002 23rd Ave S subscriptions available. c/o 12th Street Books Minneapolis MN 55404 827 W 12th Street ART OF PRISON SURVIVAL www.wpbp.org Austin TX 78701 c/o Prison Foundation Free books and reading materials to women 2512 Virginia Ave., NW #58043 and transgender people incarcerated in Contesting Book Denials Washington, DC 20037 state and federal facilities. Serves ONLY Bimonthly publication w/ profi les of prison these states: AZ, CA, FL, IL, IN, KY, MS, If books or literature mailed to you are artists. $2 donation. Stamps accepted. and OH. Also sends books to women only in denied by TDCJ, we recommend that CREATIVE NONFICTION MAGAZINE FEDERAL prisons in TX (No books for State you contest the denial. If a prisoner prisons.) appeals a mailroom offi cer’s decision to GENERAL ENQUIRIES Page 2 INSIDE BOOKS PROJECT RESOURCE GUIDE INSIDE BOOKS PROJECT RESOURCE GUIDE Page 35 PROJECT c/o CA Coalition for Women Prisoners 5119 Coral Street New York NY 10012 915 15th Street NW, 7th Floor 1540 Market St., Suite 490 Pittsburgh, PA 15224 www.pen.org/prison-writing/ Washington DC 20005 San Francisco CA 94102 No fi ction accepted. Submissions under Write for free Handbook for Writers in Prison www.aclu.org/prisoners-rights Quarterly publication for and about women 5,000 words. Only responds if story is and guidelines on annual Prison Writing Works to see that pregnant women who are in prison. accepted. Contest (annual deadline is Sept. 1). incarcerated receive the reproductive health FANTASY AND SCI FI MAGAZINE THE PRISON ARTS COALITION services they need. Write for a “Know Your FAMILIES UNITED FOR RACIAL & C.C. Finlay – Editor, The Magazine of Online only at WWW.THEPRISONART. Rights” fact sheet. ECONOMIC EQUALITY Fantasy & Science Fiction COM. an online platform for the network 81 Willoughby Street #701 P.O. Box 8420 of people making art in and around the Brooklyn NY 11201 Surprise, AZ 85374 CHICAGO BOOKS TO WOMEN IN American prison system and those who are (718) 852-2960, www.furee.org Accept up to 25,000 word fi ction story. One PRISON interested to learn more about this sector. Brooklyn-based multiracial organization story per sub, typed, double spaced & with PRISONS FOUNDATION c/o RFUMC made up almost exclusively of women of a SASE. 2512 Virginia Ave. NW, #58043 4511 N. Hermitage Ave. color. Organizes low-income families to HASTINGS WOMEN’S LAW JOURNAL Washington, DC 20037 Chicago, IL 60640 build power to change the system so that all U.C. Hastings College of the Law publish books and guides by or about Free reading material to incarcerated people’s work is valued. 200 McAllister Street women in state prisons in AZ, CA, CT, FL, inmates and returning citizens as FREE San Francisco CA 94102-4707 IL, IN, KY, MS and OH, as well as all federal downloads, including “How to Legally FUERZA UNIDA www.hastingswomenslj.org prisons (including Texas). Does not send to Avoid Being Placed on the Sex Offender 710 New Laredo Hwy women in Texas state prisons. Seeking personal narratives, fi ction & poetry Registry.” We also sell prison art. (at www. San Antonio TX 78211 from women in prison. Subscription $45 safestreetsarts.org) (210) 927-2294, www.lafuerzaunida.org J JOURNAL: NEW WRITING ON SAFE STREETS ARTS FOUNDATION Women’s group that helps families achieve CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR WOMEN JUSTICE 2512 Virginia Ave. NW, #58043 justice through education, organizing, and PRISONERS Department of English Washington DC 20037 advocacy. 1540 Market Street, Suite 490 John Jay College of Criminal Justice Accepts and sells/distributes prisoner art, San Francisco CA 94102 524 West 59th Street, 7th Fl publishes prisoner books online, and stages www.womenprisoners.org NATIONAL ADVOCATES FOR New York, NY 10019 annual shows at the Kennedy Center in Social justice organization with members PREGNANT WOMEN Published twice a year. “We’re not interested DC. All services free; write for submission inside and out, challenges the institutional 875 6th Avenue, Suite 1807 in genre writing. Some of our best fi ction, guidelines; state whether you are a writer or violence imposed on women, transgender New York NY 10001 poetry and fi rst-person narratives approach artist (SASE ensures quick reply). people, and communities of color by (212) 255-9252 justice issues from outside the traditional the prison industrial complex. Publishes www.advocatesforpregnantwomen.org fi eld of crime, law, prison writing. We seek Books-to-Prisoners Projects irregularly The Fire Inside, a quarterly Provides support nationwide for public strong literary work fi rst.” publication for and about women in prison. defenders and other local lawyers faced with JOURNAL OF PRISONERS ON PRISONS NOTE TO INMATES IN TEXAS: Please civil or criminal cases that raise legal and c/o J. Piché, Asst. Prof., Dpt.of Criminology do not write to a book project if they do not medical issues related to pregnancy. CENTER ON WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS University of Ottawa serve Texas - they will not respond (WOMEN’S PROJECT) NATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE FOR THE 120 University, Room 13049 APPALACHIAN PRISON BOOK Northwestern University School of Law DEFENSE OF BATTERED WOMEN Ottawa Ontario PROJECT 357 East Chicago Avenue 125 South 9th Street, Suite 302 Canada K1N 6N5 PO Box 601 Chicago IL 60611-3069 Philadelphia PA 19107 www.jpp.org Morgantown WV 26507 (312) 503-2391 ,www.law.northwestern.edu (215) 351-0010 Prisoners and former prisoners may submit aprisonbookproject.wordpress.com Focuses on litigation aimed at exonerating www.ncdbw.org papers, collaborative essays, interviews, Free reading material to prisoners in KY, women in prison for crimes they didn’t Assists defense teams on cases involving book reviews, and photo or graphic essays. MD, OH, TN, VA, and WV. Does not send to commit and on raising public awareness of domestic violence survivors charged with No fi ction or poetry. Texas prisoners. factors that lead to their convictions. crimes related to their abuse. No direct legal PEN AMERICAN CENTER PRISON ASHEVILLE PRISON BOOKS PROGRAM representation or advice, no social services. WRITING PROGRAM 67 N Lexington Ave. A very small nonprofi t organization, they THE FIRE INSIDE 588 Broadway, Suite 303 Page 34 INSIDE BOOKS PROJECT RESOURCE GUIDE INSIDE BOOKS PROJECT RESOURCE GUIDE Page 3 Asheville NC 28801 Brooktondale NY 14817 “Forgotten Warriors” of Desert Shield VETERANS CONSORTIUM PRO BONO www.main.nc.us/prisonbooks/main.html Free reading material to prisoners in NY, through Operation Southern Watch to PROGRAM Free reading material to prisoners in NC, MA, PA, NH, VT, RI, CT and NJ Only.
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