lew-basnight: obi-wann-cannoli:twitblr:Not much focus on rehabilitation This seems like a good time
lew-basnight: obi-wann-cannoli:twitblr:Not much focus on rehabilitation This seems like a good time to mention the Prisoners Literature Project and Inside Books Project. Both of these organizations send free books to incarcerated people, and are always looking for donations - both books and money -and volunteers! (Prisoners literature project sends books everywhere but Texas - Inside Books project is just Texas). Heard this morning that Michigan prisons are banning foreign language dictionaries (Spanish and Swahili) because they’re scared of incarcerated people being able to have conversations with each other that they can’t understandAnd it’s usually better to go through an organization like this— they have a much better idea of how to actually get stuff to people inside. Most of the time it just disappears into the void -- source link