Project Rebound is a program to help formerly incarcerated students prepare, apply, enroll and graduate with a degree from CAL State LA. The program offers academic and financial counseling, peer mentoring and tutoring, and career placement. Serves released Californians only.

Project Rebound is a program to help formerly incarcerated students prepare, apply, enroll and graduate with a degree from Sacramento State University. The program offers academic and financial counseling, peer mentoring and tutoring, and career placement. Serves released Californians only.

Project Rebound is a program to help formerly incarcerated students prepare, apply, enroll and graduate with a degree from Fresno State University. The program offers academic and financial counseling, peer mentoring and tutoring, and career placement. Serves released Californians only.

Writing Warriors Advocacy through Correspondence project establishes supportive relationships between volunteers in the community and people incarcerated at the women's prisons in California. The program is part of a collective undertaking which trains correspondents to promote advocacy for incarcerated people.  Writing Warriors volunteers primarily communicate via email but can also correspond thru U.S. mail via the CCWP Oakland office address. Only provides services to California prisons.

Serves people incarcerated in Virginia only.  Write with requests for up to three books per month.  They will do their best to fulfill all requests, but cannot guarantee specific title availability. 

Tranzmission Prison Project provides free books and zines to LGBTQIA+ individuals incarcerated in the southeast USA (West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas). For queer folks interested in receiving reading materials, please send us a letter including your name, ID number, facility name and address, genre requests, and facility restrictions.

A grassroots, volunteer-run prison abolition project that provides free books upon request to people incarcerated in New Jersey prisons. Please include your name, ID number, facility name, address, and the kind of books you want. Since all of our books are donated, we can't guarantee exact titles (though we do our best). New Jersey only.

end your book requests by USPS mail only. We cannot accept email requests. As of 2026, not currently not able to send books into Missouri prisons. Serves those in the Midwest - Kansas, Illinois, and Indiana - outside of MO.

A volunteer-run nonprofit sending books to inmates in Mississippi correctional facilities since 2015. Mississippi only.

Our project connects Midwest-based 2SLGBTQIA+ folks on the inside with 2SLGBTQIA+ and allied community members. We work with prisoners from the Midwest from these states: MN, WI, IA, ND, SD, IN, and MO. Due to a lack of resources, we prioritize prisoners in Minnesota, and our newsletter currently only goes out to Minnesota inside members.