About us:
Athens Books to Prisoners is a volunteer run organization that sends free books to prisoners in Ohio upon request. We believe that books have the power to decrease the isolation and dehumanization of the prison system, and stimulate individual growth and positive change. Many of the requests we receive are from prisoners with little or no access to adequate prison libraries or educational programs. Athens Books to Prisoners is a community based direct action response to that problem.
We acknowledge the devastating effects that prison, policing, and surveillance have on poor communities, communities of color, and other targeted communities. We hope that, as a survival program, Athens Books to Prisoners can contribute to the resilience of these communities and their battle against the prison industrial complex.
We acknowledge the devastating effects that prison, policing, and surveillance have on poor communities, communities of color, and other targeted communities. We hope that, as a survival program, Athens Books to Prisoners can contribute to the resilience of these communities and their battle against the prison industrial complex.
“ I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”
-Malcolm X
