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 up? When faced with this question, Orlando-based writer Mark I. Pinsky reached out to Asheville Prison Books. He chose our

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 in this blog post last week, Asheville Prison Books was notified by the AXCI administration back in March that no

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 our community, from prisoner solidarity and support to grassroots organizing to community self defense, medical solidarity, and more! The sun

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: postage. Every month we get between 100-200 requests for books, and each package costs about 3 dollars to mail. So

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 Crow by Michelle Alexander into NC prisons, where it had previously been banned. Local bookstore Malaprops helped source the book by