Books Behind Bars

Based in philadelphia pa books through bars is a volunteer run organization that distributes free books and educational materials to incarcerated people in pa nj ny md de va and wv.

Books behind bars.

View our calendar to get involved. Each year we send over 8 000 book packages. When we send books to prison. Behind bars is the indispensable reference book for composers arrangers teachers and students of composition editors and music processors.

Each week we receive hundreds of letters from prisoners requesting books. Prisoners send us a constant flow of thank you letters telling us how even one book has radically changed their life. In the most thorough and painstakingly researched book to be published since the 1980s specialist music editor elaine gould provides a comprehensive grounding in notational principles. Men and women behind bars seeking letters on writeaprisoner.

Books behind bars was started by kay allison of the quest institute in response to letters she was receiving at her quest book shopfrom inmates seeking books. We welcome all who wish to learn and help. Books behind bars we have distributed over 61 000 books on mindfulness meditation and buddhism to prisoners through this project since 1989. Nyc books through bars is an all volunteer run group that sends free donated books to incarcerated people across the nation.

Contact us before donating in order to. Kay started responding to the letters and sending out as many books as she could. Prison pen pals seeking friendship. It s one thing to have a book on a shelf at the library and another to teach it in class.

Purchase books for us and support us by supporting these wishlists and drives with our bookstore partners. We send a huge variety of titles. Many censorship challenges. This results in our books being read as many as 100 times before they disintegrate.

We don t just send one title. The result is that prisoners can trade them around and read all the titles we ve sent. Inmates tell us that they totally relate to the stories in our books. We have thousands of pen pals in prison to select from.

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