Volunteer-run group that sends free books to incarcerated people across the nation.
Write for free books. Does not send religious texts. Accepts requests from federal prisons and all states except AL, FL, LA, MA, MI, MS, NC, PA, OH, and WI, with a priority for NY Priority for New York prisoners.

Free books across the Eastern Seaboard. If possible, please review organization's website for updated information before contacting. Sends to DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA & VA only.

Sends free books and provides educational opportunities to people incarcerated in the Appalachian region. We serve six states: Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Request by topic area or title, and we will do our best to find a good book for you.

TLC’s Prison Mail Response Program provides incarcerated transgender and gender-nonconforming people with legal information and resources to help them advocate for themselves. Resources include prison and agency-specific policies, grievance and appeal processes, information on name and gender changes, transgender health care, know-your-rights materials, reentry resources, and other helpful organizations. Unfortunately, TLC is unable to provide legal advice, legal representation, or take on individual cases through this program. Please note that this phone number is for intake purposes only. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide legal information over the phone. This line is limited-staffed and is only available Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time. If we are unable to take your call, you may always write to us.

The Miss Major Alexander L. Lee TGIJP Black Trans Cultural Center (fka TGI Justice Project) works closely with transgender, gender non-conforming, and intersex (TGI) people who are currently or formerly incarcerated across what is known as the United States -- with a particular emphasis on TGI Californians and Floridians. We provide inside correspondence (letters of support for parole, resource guides, newsletters, magazines, coloring sheets, poetry, etc.); reentry, legal, and housing case management; court support; name and gender marker change support; referrals to other allied organizations; and financial support for reentry clients on a limited case-by-case basis. We cannot provide legal representation at this time, though we can provide referrals to pro-bono attorneys. TGIJP has been a leader in the global fight for Black trans liberation and abolition for 21 years.

The Prisoner Correspondence Project is a solidarity project for gay, lesbian, transsexual, transgender, gendervariant, two-spirit, intersex, bisexual and queer prisoners. Letters to PCP in Canada cost $1.15 in US postage. Speak/write French. Serves people nationally in USA and Canada.

Volunteer-run organization that sends books and other educational materials, free of charge, to LGBT-identified people in prison across the US. Enviar libros en Español. Sending 2 packages of books per year in 2026. Prefers requests by topic, but can occasionally fulfill specific requests. Serves all states except Texas (and state prisons where rules prohibit all book donations).

Lambda Legal carries out its legal work principally through test cases selected for the likelihood of their success in establishing positive legal precedents that will affect LGBT people and those affected by HIV. Lambda Legal recently represented a trans prisoner successfully in a lawsuit against the Texas prison system.

Through strategic litigation, public policy advocacy and education, GLAD works in New England and nationally to create a just society free of discrimination based on gender identity and expression, HIV status and sexual orientation. As part of this work, GLAD takes very select legal representation on behalf of LGBTQ prisoners. Has a victory in Sept. 2018 achieving transfer of a trans woman to a women's prison in Maine. Also has a New England centered resource guide. Mostly serves people in New England.

Formed in 2007 as a prison abolitionist, anti-authoritarian collective. Write to receive a catalog of anarchist, decolonial, queer liberation, anti-capitalist, black, brown and indigenous-oriented literature (zines), sent free to prisoners in any state. También enviamos literatura gratuita en español.