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About Urbana Champaign Books to Prisoners
We are a community-powered, volunteer-run. Urbana, Illinois based project that provides free books to incarcerated individuals in Illinois, and promotes community education about, and engagement in the issue of access to books in prisons.
As a volunteer organization, we have a number of ways for you to get involved. No experience is required and whether you have two hours a month or would like to volunteer more often, you are invited to to work with us.
At Books to Prisoners, we read the letters--on average, 150 month--that people in Illinois prisons write to us requesting reading material, and we select from our collection of donated books the closest we have in response to their requests. We also run a small, lending library at the Champaign County Jail, and stock the library shelves of the Champaign County Youth Detention Center. We welcome volunteers who want to share their talents and skills in any of these capacities, too: fund-raising, book collection and sorting, volunteer management, publicity, and education and outreach.
  
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Send us a Book Request by Mail
If a friend or loved one of yours is incarcerated (in Illinois only - we only serve people incarcerated in Illinois) and would like to request books, please tell them to write to us using the following address. This is the only way we are equipped to accept book requests for incarcerated people.
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UC Books to Prisoners
Box 515 Urbana IL 61803
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If you would like to mail financial donations or book donations, please only use United States Postal Service as it is the only shipping method that can be delivered to a Post Office Box.
We only serve people incarcerated in Illinois. If you are interested in connecting an incarcerated individual who is not in Illinois with free books, please refer to this list of other programs.
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Contact us
Send us an email at [email protected]
The only way we are equipped to accept book requests for incarcerated people is by postal mail (See address above).
For information about Jail Library program, send an email to [email protected].
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