Resources: Educational Resources

The Education Justice Project (EJP) is a comprehensive college-in-prison program at Danville Correctional Center in central Illinois. Students earn transferable University of Illinois credit. EJP’s Reentry Resource Program publishes multiple reentry guides: Mapping Your Future: National Edition and A New Path: A Guide to the Challenges and Opportunities After Deportation. Mapping Your Future includes advice about housing, employment, healthcare, substance use and more, with resources for formerly incarcerated individuals throughout the US. A New Path is a guide for people getting deported to Mexico and Central America and is published in English and Spanish. EJP also prepares specific reentry resources for Illinois residents (Mapping Your Future: A Guide to Successful Reentry in Illinois), available in both English and Spanish.) All resources can be found on their Reentry Resource Program website, including a searchable directory of Illinois resources, recently updated chapters of A New Path, and deportation guides specific to Honduras and Guatemala.

The Human Kindness Foundation sends free books and newsletters to people in prisons and jails throughout the U.S. All of our resources, many of which are available in Spanish, promote spirituality, mindfulness, creativity, and wellness for people experiencing incarceration and their families. Digital resources available on the Edovo app. Designed for and with justice-impacted audiences. Write to request materials in English or Spanish. Limited materials also available to addresses outside the U.S.

Organization supporting education model that brings together campus-based college students with incarcerated students for a class held inside jail or prison. This is a training center for Inside-Out education programs all across the country. it does not directly teach students. Write to find out if there is an Inside-Out program in your state.

ISKCON Prison Ministry (IPM) donates books about: karma, reincarnation, mantra meditation and bhakti-yoga. These books teach you how to live a godly life and find internal peace and joy, no matter what your external circumstances are.

We have books in English and Spanish. If you need books in another language, please ask us and we’ll see if we can get it for you. In your letter be sure to tell us if you are allowed hardcover or only softcover books, and how many books at a time. We also donate books, CDs (lectures and music) and DVDs, to chapel libraries; you can give our information to your chaplain. If you are allowed to receive CDs yourself, let us know that as well.