Provides free books to people incarcerated in Federal facilities nationwide and state facilities in CA, FL, and TX only. Write to request
specific titles, authors, and or general types of books you're interested in. If we don't have exact titles or authors on hand, we will
do our best to send a close match from books available.

The only organization that provides books of their choosing to youth in Illinois prisons. Volunteer-run. Write for a catalog of options.

All genres of books available, including LGBTQ+, fiction and non-fiction, social sciences, and educational materials. Specific titles are not commonly available. Resource lists available. Include prison mail rules in your request letter and limit requests to once every 4 months. Family and friends can request books through our website The total turnaround time is approximately two-three months. Serves nationwide.

Run through the Burdock Book Collective, this program fulfills book requests for people incarcerated in Alabama prisons. LGBTQA friendly: "As queers and allies ourselves, we aim to provide a space for personal expression and communication free from homophobia and transphobia. Alabama only.

This is a web-based service with reliable information on addiction and rehabilitation, substance abuse, mental health, and treatment. Lists top facilities by city with rigorous research. No facility can pay to be on a list. Includes types of treatment may be most helpful and effective.

 

The goal is to provide prisoners, prison staff, and prison volunteers with the most effective, proven tools for rehabilitation, self-transformation, and personal & professional development through mindfulness-based interventions (MBI’s). The Prison Dharma Network/Prison Mindfulness Institute (PMI) works with volunteers who offer meditation inside prisons. Its Books Behind Bars program will mail mindfulness, meditation, and Buddhist books to people inside prison. It also offers the Path of Freedom (Mindfulness-Based Emotional Intelligence) correspondence course. The Path of Freedom (and other courses by PMI) can also be found on the Edovo App (currently available in hundreds of US prisons).

Compassion Prison Project (CPP) uses trauma-awareness education and programming to create trauma-informed prisons and communities. Our 16-week compassion-based curriculum, Trauma Talks, helps participants understand how Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and trauma shape behavior, as well as develop practical tools for emotional regulation, self-agency, accountability, self-reflection, and compassion. Participants note increasing self-awareness and emotional understanding, a stronger sense of self-agency, and greater personal responsibility. Trauma Talks is available in English and Spanish. For those with access to Edovo, our Compassion in Action podcast features the top trauma experts in the world, thought leaders and motivational speakers who share lived experience, insight, and practical guidance.

Legal non-profit clinic accepts applications from anyone who has been convicted of a crime occurring in Hawai'i AND is factually innocent of that crime. Applications can be downloaded from the website or can be mailed to you. Serves Hawaii only.

Reviews wrongful convication cases where newly discovered evidence is identified and can provide clear and convincing proof of actual innocence. Actual innocence means the defendant played no role in the commission sof the crime. Serves Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota only.