fight the power 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 they WON their
fight the power 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.
Fought the Power—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 in this blog
prison policy 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.
news Hog farms, toxic water, and more toxic prisons in Texas and beyond! By Keith “Malik” Washington “The 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 which social, economic,
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 our community, from
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: postage. Every month
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 Crow by Michelle
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 our friends behind