Request Form - Prison Book Program

We do not send books to prisons in California, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada or Texas.

Prison Book Program Book Request Form Prisoner Information

PBP Use Only: Please do not write in this space:

Full Name: Please use the exact name on record with the prison or state D.O.C.

ID #: Address:

City

State

ZIP

Restrictions and Release Date Facility restrictions on books (if known): Approximate release date:

Book Request Please choose at least three subjects that may be of interest.                   

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Activism Anthropology/Archeology Art* Business* Culture – African Culture – African American Culture – Asian Culture – Latin American* Culture – Native American* Current Events Dictionary* Easy Readers Exercise Fiction – General Fiction – Historical Fiction – Mysteries Fiction – Science Fiction Fiction – Urban Fiction* Fiction – Westerns*

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Film and Television Foreign Language Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans* GED Study Materials* Health* History – American History – Ancient* History – European History – World Hobbies Job Hunting/Career Legal Primer – “We the People” Music* National Prisoner Resource List Poetry Political Science Religion – Buddhism Religion – Christianity

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Religion – Hinduism Religion – Islam Religion – Judaism Religion – New Age/Spirituality Religion – Wicca/Wiccan* Self Help – Addictions Self Help – Adult Children of Alcoholic/Dysfunctional Families Self Help – Death and Dying Self Help – General Self Help – Parenting Self Help – Relationships Self Help – Sexual Abuse Sociology Sports Thesaurus* Trade Skills* Women's Studies Writing

* These subjects are frequently out-of-stock. Please ask for alternate subjects if you request these. More details: Please note that we rarely can fill requests for specific titles. Our donated inventory varies greatly.

Your Information (Skip if requesting books for yourself) Your Name: Last

First

Address: Street Address City

State

ZIP Code

Email: YES

Can we send you our e-newsletter?

NO

Relationship to prisoner:

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Prison Book Program Book Request Form Mail your request to: Prison Book Program – Website Request c/o Lucy Parsons Bookstore 1306 Hancock St, Suite 100 Quincy, MA 02169

How PBP Works: • • • • • • • •

The books are a free gift to the person receiving them. They do not need to be returned to the Prison Book Program. There is no charge for the books. We fill requests as quickly as possible but sometimes that means 3-6 months. Please be patient with us. 50100 volunteers work to fill requests each month. Each prisoner is limited to two book shipments per year. Please do not write us more than once every six months or have multiple people send in additional requests. Additional requests will be ignored. We provide books to individual prisoners. We do not provide books to libraries or to administrators. We do not have a catalog, offer pen-pal services, or maintain a mailing list. We do not send books to: California, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, Texas, and many individual prisons. Please visit our website for a list of specific prisons where we cannot send books. We also have a list of other “books to prisoners” programs that may have approval to serve these locations All requests must be mailed to us. We do not accept book requests by email or phone.

Books Available • • • •

What is available varies and depends on what is donated and what is in stock when we fill the request. Only one dictionary request per person per year will be honored. Our free 6-page National Prisoner Resource List and 40-page “We the People” legal primer are available upon request only. Both resources are also available on our website for you to print and mail to the person inside. All requests for legal material will be fulfilled with a "We the People" legal primer.