We’re at the Tower Grove Farmers’ Market rain or shine! Catch us by the tennis courts again on May 30 from 8 am to 12:30 pm.
Thanks to everyone who stopped by today, we loved seeing you!
Stocking up our library! Volunteers recently picked up leftover books from the Greater St. Louis Book Fair and the John Burroughs School family garage sale.
These books will get sorted and shelved into our inventory, eventually getting sent out to readers.
Want to donate? We are especially in need of hobby/skills books, comics and graphic novels, religion and spiritually books and craft or drawing books!
Thank you to WashU’s Criminal Law Society for their recent help packing books and cleaning our office!
We’re also thankful to our volunteers who helped move a large donation of books this weekend and everyone who stopped by our table at @subbooks for Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday.
Want to get involved or learn more? Visit our website at the link in our bio. 📚📬
Come visit our table at the Tower Grove Farmers’ Market this year to learn about our work and browse overflow books!
Interested in volunteering? Sign up at the link in our bio.
Want to get involved with MPB? We’re unloading a number of boxes of books on April 25 and would love to see you. Sign up to learn more information at the link in our bio.
Want to get involved in your community? Like working with books? Are you passionate about serving incarcerated individuals in our region?
Then come work with us!
We are seeking to fill two volunteer leadership positions within our program. Email [email protected] to apply or send us any questions about the roles.
We had a great time @pinupbowl last night for our volunteer appreciation event. These are the people who get books to prisons and we couldn’t be more grateful for their work!
If you’d like to join in on our efforts, head to our website to discover volunteer opportunities. Whether it’s helping sort and pack books, picking up donations or delivering packages to the post office, we would love to have you. 🎳📚📬
Come bowl with us on March 5 as we show our appreciation for our wonderful volunteers!
Meet and mingle with other Missouri Prison Book volunteers and board members while enjoying food and drinks on us.
We’ll be at Pin-Up Bowl in the Delmar Loop from 6-8 pm. RSVP on our website and at the link in our bio. Plus ones are welcome.
See you there. 🎳🍕📚
We’re back from winter break! After a few weeks off, we have resumed packing sessions and are once again accepting donations.
Want to get involved? Learn more about volunteer opportunities in the link in our bio. 📖📚📨
Prison Health News is a Philadelphia-based health magazine that distributes to prisons across the U.S.
But, according to @prisonhealthnews , for over a year now, South Central mail room has refused the publication.
Public Health News is urging supporters to call South Central and use the provided script to demand staff accept and distribute the publication to those in prison who have ordered it.
Find more information at prisonhealth.news
Slides credit to @prisonhealthnews
Freedom Reads, a Connecticut-based nonprofit, recently announced the opening of 35 new Freedom Libraries across two Missouri facilities, the Women’s Eastern Reception, Diagnostic & Correctional Center and the Fulton Reception and Diagnostic Center.
Freedom Reads places stocked bookcases in the center of prison cellblocks, where they become hubs for conversations and community.
Each Freedom Library features 500 carefully curated books with genres such as contemporary poetry, classic fiction, philosophy, memoir, science fiction. These new libraries mark the first of Freedom Reads’ in Missouri.
“We are delighted to bring Freedom Libraries to Missouri as we expand not only our reach but the imaginations and possibilities for readers inside,” Freedom Reads founder and CEO Reginald Dwayne Betts.
Learn more about the work Freedom Reads is doing at freedomreads.org and @freedombeginswithabook .
Image: A Freedom Library at Woodbourne Correctional Facility in New York. (Photo by: Karen Pearson)
