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The Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project is an all volunteer effort that strives to encourage self-education among prisoners in the United States. By providing free reading materials upon request, we hope to aid in the rehabilitation process and stimulate critical thinking behind bars.

The Midwest Pages to Prisoners project is an organization made up of volunteers working in their spare time to provide free books to prisoners. Our volunteers are concerned citizens and activists interested in rehabilitation, rather than punishment.

The project exists to alleviate pain, boredom, and attrition and to provide a direct opportunity for self-education. Additionally, we exist because prison libraries sometimes fail in this respect, and are understocked, or are only able to be patronized during specific and limited hours.

We exist because prisoners are not strangers: they are brothers, sisters, friends, cousins, mothers, and children.

submitted on Thu, 2006-01-19 19:45

Volunteer!

Thursdays 8p-11p
Sundays 2p-5p

at

118 S. Rogers
Suite #2
Bloomington, IN 47404

Please read our volunteering page for more information.

Donate!

You can also support us by donating materials, books, and/or money. We are always in need of packing materials and reusable manilla envelopes. Please contact us before donating books. Checks can be made out to "Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project" and sent to or dropped off during normal business hours at Boxcar Books at 408 E. 6th St. Bloomington, IN 47408 You can donate to our project online using PayPal by clicking on the button below.

Contact!

310A S. Washington St.
Bloomington, IN 47401

812.339.8710

mwpp [at] pagestoprisoners.org

Bookmooch

The Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project would like to thank BookMooch for their generous support. BookMooch, an online community for exchanging used books, has generously donated points to us so we can request specific books from BookMooch members.

Allies

There are many other groups that work towards the same goals as the Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project. Read more.

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U.S. Prison Statistics

  • It costs more to incarcerate someone for a year than to send them to Harvard University for a year.
  • The incarceration rate in the U.S. is 725 for every 100,000 (the highest in the world).
  • More inmates than householders reported reading a book within the last six months (89 percent compared with 83 percent.)