DC Books to Prisons
@dcbookstoprisons.bsky.social
Since 1999, DC Books to Prisons has provided free books to incarcerated individuals. https://linktr.ee/dcbtp
🎁✨ Small Business Saturday Celebration! ✨🎁
Shop local this Saturday at @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social, 600 H Street, and DC Books to Prisons volunteers will gift wrap the books you purchase for free! Shop small and help us spread cheer! #SmallBusinessSaturday #IndieBookstore #shoplocal #shopsmall
Shop local this Saturday at @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social, 600 H Street, and DC Books to Prisons volunteers will gift wrap the books you purchase for free! Shop small and help us spread cheer! #SmallBusinessSaturday #IndieBookstore #shoplocal #shopsmall
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
🎁✨ Small Business Saturday Celebration! ✨🎁
Shop local this Saturday at @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social, 600 H Street, and DC Books to Prisons volunteers will gift wrap the books you purchase for free! Shop small and help us spread cheer! #SmallBusinessSaturday #IndieBookstore #shoplocal #shopsmall
Shop local this Saturday at @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social, 600 H Street, and DC Books to Prisons volunteers will gift wrap the books you purchase for free! Shop small and help us spread cheer! #SmallBusinessSaturday #IndieBookstore #shoplocal #shopsmall
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We need to keep talking about the situation in Bernalillo County MDC, where ALL paper books--including personal possessions--were taken away from incarcerated people earlier this year. The proposed replacement is a tablet with extremely limited book options.
www.kob.com/new-mexico/p...
www.kob.com/new-mexico/p...
Paper book ban sparks independent audit of Metropolitan Detention Center
A new policy at MDC removing paper books and paper letters from inmates is under scrutiny.
www.kob.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
We need to keep talking about the situation in Bernalillo County MDC, where ALL paper books--including personal possessions--were taken away from incarcerated people earlier this year. The proposed replacement is a tablet with extremely limited book options.
www.kob.com/new-mexico/p...
www.kob.com/new-mexico/p...
Good times at the @dcpunkflea.bsky.social yesterday, spreading the word and raising funds for the cause! #BookstoPeopleinPrison
November 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Good times at the @dcpunkflea.bsky.social yesterday, spreading the word and raising funds for the cause! #BookstoPeopleinPrison
We'll be tabling at the @dcpunkflea.bsky.social this Saturday! We'll have zines, stickers, buttons, and all the program info you desire! This is one of my favorite things to do all year, cool people, good vibes, and lots of neat vendors with gifts or the holidays! Don't miss out and come say hi!
November 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
We'll be tabling at the @dcpunkflea.bsky.social this Saturday! We'll have zines, stickers, buttons, and all the program info you desire! This is one of my favorite things to do all year, cool people, good vibes, and lots of neat vendors with gifts or the holidays! Don't miss out and come say hi!
Looking so forward to tabling here next week!
November 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Looking so forward to tabling here next week!
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40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
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👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
The final numbers are in from the Banned Books Week Book Drive, and it was our most successful ever! Thanks to all of you, we received 406 new paperback books, as well as over $5,300 in matching funds! We are already sending those books out to the incarcerated populations we serve. linktr.ee/dcbtp
November 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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The final numbers are in from the Banned Books Week Book Drive, and it was our most successful ever! Thanks to all of you, we received 406 new paperback books, as well as over $5,300 in matching funds! We are already sending those books out to the incarcerated populations we serve. linktr.ee/dcbtp
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The final numbers are in from the Banned Books Week Book Drive, and it was our most successful ever! Thanks to all of you, we received 406 new paperback books, as well as over $5,300 in matching funds! We are already sending those books out to the incarcerated populations we serve. linktr.ee/dcbtp
November 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The final numbers are in from the Banned Books Week Book Drive, and it was our most successful ever! Thanks to all of you, we received 406 new paperback books, as well as over $5,300 in matching funds! We are already sending those books out to the incarcerated populations we serve. linktr.ee/dcbtp
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She's voicing important things about prison censorship:
1. Oversight to stop harmful decisions needs to happen NOW.
2. Mailrooms claim ANYTHING on a book is "drugs". Proof? Who cares!
Thank you for speaking up. It coincides perfectly with #PrisonBannedBooksWeek2025.
www.tmj4.com/about-us/lig...
1. Oversight to stop harmful decisions needs to happen NOW.
2. Mailrooms claim ANYTHING on a book is "drugs". Proof? Who cares!
Thank you for speaking up. It coincides perfectly with #PrisonBannedBooksWeek2025.
www.tmj4.com/about-us/lig...
Wisconsin woman challenges prison's book ban after warden blocks humorous gift
A Wisconsin woman is speaking out after a state prison warden refused to allow a book she purchased as a gift to reach an inmate, despite the book being shipped from an authorized vendor.
www.tmj4.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM
She's voicing important things about prison censorship:
1. Oversight to stop harmful decisions needs to happen NOW.
2. Mailrooms claim ANYTHING on a book is "drugs". Proof? Who cares!
Thank you for speaking up. It coincides perfectly with #PrisonBannedBooksWeek2025.
www.tmj4.com/about-us/lig...
1. Oversight to stop harmful decisions needs to happen NOW.
2. Mailrooms claim ANYTHING on a book is "drugs". Proof? Who cares!
Thank you for speaking up. It coincides perfectly with #PrisonBannedBooksWeek2025.
www.tmj4.com/about-us/lig...
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📘 Check out the article a member of our team wrote for the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance at sibaweb.com/blogpost/115... about the big impact indies can have when they support the prison book movement! #PrisonBannedBookWeek 5/5
Banned Books Week: Firestorm Books Prison Books Program - Southern Indie Booksellers Alliance
sibaweb.com
September 20, 2024 at 12:58 PM
📘 Check out the article a member of our team wrote for the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance at sibaweb.com/blogpost/115... about the big impact indies can have when they support the prison book movement! #PrisonBannedBookWeek 5/5
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We have free copies for anyone in prison in the United States or Canada.
Thanks to @equalityalec.bsky.social for copies of "Copaganda," which shows the role media, security forces, universities and "liberal" politicians have in growing the security state and ensuring unequal justice. We'll send these to the prison book clubs we support and fulfill individual requests.
October 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
We have free copies for anyone in prison in the United States or Canada.
Thanks to @equalityalec.bsky.social for copies of "Copaganda," which shows the role media, security forces, universities and "liberal" politicians have in growing the security state and ensuring unequal justice. We'll send these to the prison book clubs we support and fulfill individual requests.
October 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Thanks to @equalityalec.bsky.social for copies of "Copaganda," which shows the role media, security forces, universities and "liberal" politicians have in growing the security state and ensuring unequal justice. We'll send these to the prison book clubs we support and fulfill individual requests.
Big Thanks to everyone who donated books to DC Books to Prisons over the last week! The Banned Books Bookdrive was by far our most successful ever, and coupled with the matching cash donation for every book bought from our partner bookstores we’ll be able to keep up and perhaps expand our work.
October 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Big Thanks to everyone who donated books to DC Books to Prisons over the last week! The Banned Books Bookdrive was by far our most successful ever, and coupled with the matching cash donation for every book bought from our partner bookstores we’ll be able to keep up and perhaps expand our work.
Prisons and jails ban more books than all public schools and libraries combined. Throughout the country individual prisons and entire states are implementing more draconian and non-sensical prison book bans, with little public knowledge or outcry.
October 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Prisons and jails ban more books than all public schools and libraries combined. Throughout the country individual prisons and entire states are implementing more draconian and non-sensical prison book bans, with little public knowledge or outcry.
Prisons censor staggering numbers of books and other reading materials, not just for their content but for a stunning range of capricious reasons including the size of a book or the color of mailed wrapping paper.
October 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Prisons censor staggering numbers of books and other reading materials, not just for their content but for a stunning range of capricious reasons including the size of a book or the color of mailed wrapping paper.
@mahoganybooks.bsky.social, in Oxon Hill MD, is collecting books purchased in-store and has a wishlist for us. Through Saturday, October 11, buy a book for DCBtP in-store or from the wishlist and a donor will match the amount of the gift!. Our bookstore wishlists are here - linktr.ee/dcbtp
October 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
@mahoganybooks.bsky.social, in Oxon Hill MD, is collecting books purchased in-store and has a wishlist for us. Through Saturday, October 11, buy a book for DCBtP in-store or from the wishlist and a donor will match the amount of the gift!. Our bookstore wishlists are here - linktr.ee/dcbtp
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I don't think most people understand what we're facing. Not really.
October 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I don't think most people understand what we're facing. Not really.
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Are you looking to do something positive and tangible in the midst of everything?
October 7-8 all books purchased from our @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social and @peoplesbooktakoma.com wishlists come with free delivery! With the Banned Books Week Bookdrive, a donor will cash match every book! Right now is the best time to donate to DC Books to Prisons – linktr.ee/dcbtp
October 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Are you looking to do something positive and tangible in the midst of everything?
Today 10/8! Books donated from our @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social wishlist will be delivered to us with no shipping - bookshop.org/wishlists/1f.... Until October 11, when you buy a book for DC Books to Prisons from our wishlists a donor will match the amount of the gift. But today is the best day!!!
October 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Today 10/8! Books donated from our @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social wishlist will be delivered to us with no shipping - bookshop.org/wishlists/1f.... Until October 11, when you buy a book for DC Books to Prisons from our wishlists a donor will match the amount of the gift. But today is the best day!!!
October 7-8 all books purchased from our @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social and @peoplesbooktakoma.com wishlists come with free delivery! With the Banned Books Week Bookdrive, a donor will cash match every book! Right now is the best time to donate to DC Books to Prisons – linktr.ee/dcbtp
October 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
October 7-8 all books purchased from our @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social and @peoplesbooktakoma.com wishlists come with free delivery! With the Banned Books Week Bookdrive, a donor will cash match every book! Right now is the best time to donate to DC Books to Prisons – linktr.ee/dcbtp
Hey! Today and tomorrow October 7th and 8th shipping us free from our @peoplesbooktakoma.com wishlist! Don't wait to donate books, support the store, and every cent you spend will be matched by a donor! bookshop.org/wishlists/fc...
Until October 11, buy a book for DC Books to Prisons from the @peoplesbooktakoma.com wishlist and a donor will match the amount of the gift to DCBtP. So the store gets the sale, and we get the book and some money to send them! Check out the wishlist -
bookshop.org/wishlists/fc...
bookshop.org/wishlists/fc...
October 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Hey! Today and tomorrow October 7th and 8th shipping us free from our @peoplesbooktakoma.com wishlist! Don't wait to donate books, support the store, and every cent you spend will be matched by a donor! bookshop.org/wishlists/fc...
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Until October 11, buy a book for DC Books to Prisons from the @peoplesbooktakoma.com wishlist and a donor will match the amount of the gift to DCBtP. So the store gets the sale, and we get the book and some money to send them! Check out the wishlist -
bookshop.org/wishlists/fc...
bookshop.org/wishlists/fc...
October 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
We'll be there too!
It’s #BannedBooksWeek and @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social will be hosting the famed Banned Wagon this Weds 10/8, 3-7pm. They will showcase a selection of 30 banned books and distribute free copies (while supplies last). Take action, save our stories, and preserve First Amendment rights!
October 6, 2025 at 10:29 PM
We'll be there too!
Until October 11, buy a book for DC Books to Prisons from the @peoplesbooktakoma.com wishlist and a donor will match the amount of the gift to DCBtP. So the store gets the sale, and we get the book and some money to send them! Check out the wishlist -
bookshop.org/wishlists/fc...
bookshop.org/wishlists/fc...
October 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Until October 11, buy a book for DC Books to Prisons from the @peoplesbooktakoma.com wishlist and a donor will match the amount of the gift to DCBtP. So the store gets the sale, and we get the book and some money to send them! Check out the wishlist -
bookshop.org/wishlists/fc...
bookshop.org/wishlists/fc...