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Onslow County Book Policy Clarified

Sheriff says books ARE still allowed at the jail as long as they come from "legitimate" distributors or publishers, and that there was never a plan to ban books at the facility.

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πŸ“šπŸ΄πŸ“š 2 Dec 2020 • 4 min read
First-ever I/O Book Club Journal Released!
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First-ever I/O Book Club Journal Released!

We wanted to provide the experience of a book club–the exchange of perspectives and dialogue–to those inside who otherwise might not have access to such an activity.

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DJ Tiny Cuts 19 Jan 2020 • 3 min read
Banned Books Week, Sept. 22-28
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Banned Books Week, Sept. 22-28

β€œIn the era of prison profiteers like JPay, we’re potentially seeing the dawn of a new era of prison censorship."

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DJ Tiny Cuts 20 Sep 2019 • 2 min read
Order Fulfillment Volunteer Training!
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Order Fulfillment Volunteer Training!

Saturday, August 10 from 1-3pm, attend this trainining to learn how to fulfill requests for books!

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DJ Tiny Cuts 5 Aug 2019 • 1 min read
Hollow Book-Making Workshop!
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Hollow Book-Making Workshop!

Transform your old hardcovers into sneaky storage--because the best secrets are hidden in plain sight.

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DJ Tiny Cuts 30 Jul 2019 • 2 min read
Prison Reading Group Planning Meeting

Prison Reading Group Planning Meeting

Asheville Prison Books wants to facilitate a correspondence reading group with people who are in prison. The general plan is to select and source a book, figure out who will

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πŸ“šπŸ΄πŸ“š 6 Jun 2019 • 1 min read
Book Drive + Benefit Concert w/ Ben Phan & the Jarvis Jenkins Band!
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Book Drive + Benefit Concert w/ Ben Phan & the Jarvis Jenkins Band!

April 27 @7-11pm - Special solo show w/ guitarist Ben Phan followed by UpCountry Brewery favorite Jarvis Jenkins! $5-10 suggested, no one turned away!

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DJ Tiny Cuts 1 Apr 2019 • 1 min read
Beer Benefit
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Beer Benefit

Catawba Brewing is releasing a new habenero mole porter this Thursday and $1 from each glass will be going to Asheville Prison Books! We'll have a table at Catawba's South

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πŸ“šπŸ΄πŸ“š 4 Dec 2018 • 1 min read
Someone wrote an article about us!

Someone wrote an article about us!

When you've amassed a personal library of hundreds of books over a lifetime, the tough process of passing those loved volumes on starts with the question: where should they end

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DJ Tiny Cuts 28 Aug 2018 • 4 min read
Repression escalates as #August21 prison strike approaches
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Repression escalates as #August21 prison strike approaches

Supporting the prison strike means monitoring and opposing the repressive methods that the prison system uses to try and break it.

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DJ Tiny Cuts 3 Aug 2018 • 6 min read
Asheville Prison Books Endorses #August21 Nationwide Prison Strike: 8/21-9/9
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Asheville Prison Books Endorses #August21 Nationwide Prison Strike: 8/21-9/9

Asheville Prison Books endorses the national prison strike called for by prisoners which begins August 21st and extends to September 9th. The insane incarceration rate in the United Sates should

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πŸ“šπŸ΄πŸ“š 14 Jul 2018 • 5 min read
Big House Books Wins Lawsuit!
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Big House Books Wins Lawsuit!

As reported in in May, Big House Books based in Mississippi sued MS DOC for banning donated/free books from coming into MS prisons. We found out this week that

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DJ Tiny Cuts 14 Jul 2018 • 1 min read
Eastham Prison Officials Refuse to Provide Ice and Water to Prisoners Trapped in Ad-Seg Cells!
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Eastham Prison Officials Refuse to Provide Ice and Water to Prisoners Trapped in Ad-Seg Cells!

Never in my life did I think I would be BEGGING for something as fundamental and life-saving as WATER and ICE.

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DJ Tiny Cuts 28 Jun 2018 • 5 min read
Fought the Powerβ€”And Won!

Fought the Powerβ€”And Won!

We're delighted to announce that APB is once again able to send free/donated books to Alexander CI (AXCI) in Taylorsville! We challenged a nonsense policy and WON. As reported

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DJ Tiny Cuts 11 May 2018 • 2 min read
Big Ups to Big House Books! Fight the Power!
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Big Ups to Big House Books! Fight the Power!

The reason they are no longer allowing donated books has nothing to do with contraband or security; it is because they don't feel like doing their jobs, which is to sort and distribute prisoner mail.

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DJ Tiny Cuts 5 May 2018 • 3 min read
Hog farms, toxic water, and more toxic prisons in Texas and beyond!
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Hog farms, toxic water, and more toxic prisons in Texas and beyond!

By Keith β€œMalik” Washington β€œThe pre-eminence of environmentalism in the 21st century is a novel political and historical development. Ecology is a new body of scientific description and knowledge upon

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DJ Tiny Cuts 5 May 2018 • 10 min read
South Carolina "riot" and call for National Prisoners Strike
South Carolina

South Carolina "riot" and call for National Prisoners Strike

These undated photos from the South Carolina Department of Corrections show, top row from left, Corey Scott, Eddie Casey Gaskins, Raymond Angelo Scott and Damonte Rivera; bottom row from left,

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πŸ“šπŸ΄πŸ“š 30 Apr 2018 • 4 min read
Asheville Anarchist Rad Fair!

Asheville Anarchist Rad Fair!

On April 1 we tabled at the Asheville Anarchist Rad Fair, an outdoor gathering of local projects run by anarchists/anti-authoritarians that do a wide variety of excellent work in

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DJ Tiny Cuts 10 Apr 2018 • 1 min read
Help us get these books into people's hands!

Help us get these books into people's hands!

We're doing a great job filling requests: so good, in fact, that we're running low on funds! AVL Prison Books is 100% volunteer run. We only have one real expense:

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DJ Tiny Cuts 24 Mar 2018 • 1 min read
New Jim Crow on its way into NC prisons!

New Jim Crow on its way into NC prisons!

Thanks to our community partner Faith 4 Justice & Malaprops Books! We are delighted to be partnering with Faith4Justice Asheville to get copies of the ground-breaking book The New Jim

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DJ Tiny Cuts 23 Mar 2018 • 2 min read
Keep PUSHing: Building on the #OperationPUSH demands
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Keep PUSHing: Building on the #OperationPUSH demands

Mere days before FDC's repression effort began scattering active prisoners into new facilities, and into solitary confinement for the weeks surrounding January 15, an Operation PUSH prisoner's anonymous voice reached

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πŸ“šπŸ΄πŸ“š 17 Feb 2018 • 2 min read
Monthly Packaging Party! Feb. 22
Packaging Party

Monthly Packaging Party! Feb. 22

Thursday, February 22 @ 6-9pm Firestorm Books & Coffee (610 Haywood Rd) Asheville Prison Books and Tranzmission Prison Project will gather to pack up tons of books to send out to

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DJ Tiny Cuts 17 Feb 2018 • 1 min read
Brews for Books
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Brews for Books

New Beer Thursday Fundraiser at Catawba! Join us at Catawba's South Slope Tasting Room & Brewery on Thursday, Feburary 15th for their first New Beer Thursday fundraiser of 2018!! Starting

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πŸ“šπŸ΄πŸ“š 15 Feb 2018 • 1 min read
SC lawmaker calls for firing squads to carry out the death penalty
South Carolina

SC lawmaker calls for firing squads to carry out the death penalty

Fox Carolina: South Carolina Rep. Josh Putnam (R, Piedmont) said he plans to reintroduce a bill to add firing squads to the execution methods in South Carolina. Putnam first introduced

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πŸ“šπŸ΄πŸ“š 9 Feb 2018 • 2 min read
Rashid Details FDOC Torture Practices
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Rashid Details FDOC Torture Practices

Fight Toxic Prisons: Time on Ice: Florida Officials Torture Prisoners With Freezing Strip Cells (2018) By Kevin Rashid Johnson When I first arrived in the Florida prison system on June

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πŸ“šπŸ΄πŸ“š 2 Feb 2018 • 13 min read
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