Who We Are

         We are college students, we are retired people and we are everyone in between. 
We cannot imagine a world without books.


        To understand the humanity of a society,                            look to their prisons.                      Dotoevsky


              Books are crucial to the political, spiritual and educational development of all people. Disadvantage has
  shackled the lives of nearly all of the over 2 million  people currently in our nation’s “Corrections” system. Perhaps
  the advantage of learning can and will make an
important difference between just “doing time” and doing something DYNAMIC with their time.


           Prison educational programs have been drastically cut and most prisoners cannot afford to buy their own books. Most facilities do not allow family and friends to send books into prisons; they must come from a bookstore or publisher.


        That's where we step in to help.



2 MILLION AMERICANS ARE BEHIND BARS
MOST ARE NON VIOLENT CRIMINALS
80% ARE PARENTS

           The current mood within our penile system perpetuates punishment -- period. Rehabilitation  has evolved into
    a foreign concept.  We sit in front of our TV screens buying into the “tough onbcrime” proclamations and gaping in            wonderment at 97% conviction rates.
Two-thirds of all  inmates released are re-arrested. But what have any of us
    done to truly diminish crime or pave the
way toward  reducing recidivism?


     Throwing our hands up serves only to contribute to perpetuating a cycle of infringement and incarceration.


      “Lock ‘em up and throw away the key;” the mantra of many. Yet, over 70% of incarcerated Americans are guilty
of non-violent crimes.  Untold numbers have been demonized and thrown behind bars for wrongful accusations. 
“The land of the free“ has developed into a nation which represents 25% of the world‘s estimated nine-million-plus prisoners, even though the U.S. represents only about five percent of the world’s population.


        Our goal is to fight back:
one inmate at a time, one book at a time,one caring gesture at a time.


Sending books to prisoners:

  Combats recidivism
        with literacy and education


 Provides escape
        from demoralizing conditions                       Maintains contact
                            with the "outside world"


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