Once again, T.I.S. college bookstore was helpful enough to set up collection bins at their store during textbook buybacks so customers could donate textbooks they could not or did not wish to sell, to the Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project. We received over 30 boxes of books. These boxes included a wide variety of college textbooks but also some dictionaries, Spanish to English dictionaries, books on African American history and culture, and other types of books that are very often requested by Pages. I
Also, recently, The Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project was asked for donations to help improve the prison library at the New Castle Correctional Facility. The New Castle C.F. library had less than 1000 books for its average daily population of 1006 people. Through books from the T.I.S. donation and other community donors, the Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project was able to fill up a mini-van with books to improve the prison library.
