UC Books to Prisoners is an Urbana Illinois based project providing free books to incarcerated individuals in Illinois by mail, and bringing books to the Champaign county jail library which we operate and the County Youth Detention Center.

We are a community-powered volunteer organization with a number of ways for you to get involved. No experience is required, but it helps if you like to read. And whether you have an hour a month or would like to volunteer more often, you are invited to work with us.

Volunteers do everything most of the tasks at B2P, so there is likely to be a place for your skills and talents in this project. Volunteers staff the jail library, sort and shelve incoming book donations, read the letters prisoners’ send us requesting reading material, select books that answer their requests from our collection of donated books, pack and ship, enter data,  run fundraising events, organize book drives for the most requested titles, write for our newsletter, appreciate donors and fellow volunteers as well as many other technical tasks.