Inside Books Project is an Austin-based non-profit (founded in 1998) that sends free books and educational materials to people in Texas prisons.
Austin, Texas
Joined November 2014
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“Surviving my seventh sweltering summer in a Texas solitary confinement women’s prison is easier when I’m escaping in a good book,” Kwaneta Harris writes for The Emancipator. bostonglobe.com/2023/10/23/o…
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📚🍺Curl up to a good book while sipping on a tasty brew!
@meanwhilebeer’s annual Lagers and Literature event is back. Adrienne Rivers and Scott Odierno joined @TrevorScottATX to chat about the event and how it supports @InsideBooksATX.
cbsaustin.com/features/we-ar…
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Tomorrow officially kicks off #GiveBIG, Washington's biggest community giving event! ...But there's no need to wait! Early giving is now open, and we want to raise enough funds this year to provide 2023 packages of books: wagives.org/organization/Boo…
ALT Promotional flyer. Background is an orange wall. At the bottom of the picture, the top of a blue painted wood shelf or table supports 8 books leaning against each other. The books are clustered on the right side of the picture. Titles of the books are not visible, but the spines are yellow, orange, and blue. Above the books is black text: "$4 provides books for one incarcerated reader who makes a request from Books to Prisoners". To the left of the books is blue text: "Give <3 BIG May 2-3, Powered by 501 Commons".
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Don't miss out on the Iron Sharpens Iron show this WEDNESDAY featuring special guests Scott Odierno and Amy Anomalous with the Inside Books Project! Make sure you tune in at KAZI 88.7 FM live from 12-1pm! You can also listen live at kazifm.org
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Austinites! I'll be signing books this weekend at the Lagers & Lit Book Fair. Event proceeds go to @InsideBooksATX.
So... if you like books and beer and supporting reading access for prisoners, stop by @meanwhilebeer on Sunday. meanwhilebeer.com/events/lag…
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If the concrete is this HOT on your pet's feet, how HOT is it for those being baked inside of concrete buildings in our Texas prison system!?! #Under85Degrees #StopCookingThemAlive
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The NLRB ruled that he was fired illegally! We’re demanding that amazon give him his job back w/ back pay immediately! Also we’re asking if you can please donate to his gofundme in the meantime until he’s reinstated at amazon.
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#UnionStrong – at Staten Island, NY
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The Denver program to send social workers instead of police (STAR) has responded to over 2,200 calls low-level/intox/MH calls.
They have never called for police back-up due to a safety issue.
Never.
Think about that.
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"The essence of abolitionism is the construction of a society without imprisonment and policing."
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Two years into the pandemic, prisons are still using torturous conditions over depopulating prisons to stop the spread.
truthout.org/articles/covid-…
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“Every other country in the developed world and even some dictatorships allow international inspectors into their prison systems to monitor them for conditions,” he said.“That is a completely alien concept in America.”
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NEW: A Scottish court has refused to extradite a man to America — entirely because he would have gone to Texas, and the judge decided Texas prison conditions violate international human rights standards.
My latest, and a THREAD: themarshallproject.org/2022/…
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'I believe this is true reform that can actually change lives,' Oklahoma Senate bill eliminating certain fines and fees for convicted moves forward trib.al/gY8DTig
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Shout out to people who are organizing from inside prisons and jails and ICE detention centers.
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NEW: We’ve just released the 2022 edition of Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie - the most comprehensive, up-to-date view of who is locked up in the U.S., where, and why: prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie…
This report shows huge drops in prison and jail populations. Why? Thread.
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In a system replicating centuries’ old convict leasing, Louisiana’s work release programs put prisoners in the trenches of oil and gas production, disaster preparation, and clean up.
scalawagmagazine.org/2020/03…
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today alongside my brilliant and visionary friend @dwaynebetts, we installed two freedom libraries at Hunt and Angola prison. Hand crafted, chestnut, curved book shelves filled with thoughtfully-selected books. demanding something beautiful exist inside prisons.
more, soon,
