Resource Lists for people in prison

Vendors for Prisoners, 405 5th St., Box 1469, Sedalia, MO. 65302 vendorsforprisoners@smail.com

PARC – Prison Activist Resource Center, PO Box 70447, Oakland, CA. 94612; https://www.prisonactivist.org

Book lists: Prison Book Program c/o Lucy Parsons Bookstore, 1306 Hancock St., Suite 100, Quincy, MA. 02169

Groundwork Books – 323 VCSD Student Center, La Jolla, CA. 92037 (1 p/person and send area of interest) 

Books Through Bars, 4722 Baltimore Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19143 (list topics of interest)

Autumn Leaves Bookstore, 115 The Commons, 2nd floor, Ithica, NY 14850

Bluestockings Book Store, 172 Allen St, NY, NY 10002 (history and political books)

Left Bank Books, 92 Pike St, Box A, Seattle, WA. 98101( cannot fulfill ‘must be new’ requests);

DC Prison Book Project, c/o Don Quixote Center, PO Box 5243, Hyattsville, MD 20782 (prisoner issues)

BOOKS – Human Person and Spiritual Growth: Prison Library Project, 586 W 1st Street, Claremont, CA. 91711

Human Kindness Foundation, PO Box 61619, Durham, NC 27715. Offers the Prison Ashram Project of friendship and support with interfaith books, tapes, newletters and workshops and a newsletter.

Science of Mind Foundation, 573 Park Point Drive, Golden, Co. 80401. Affirmative thinking and prayers. Gives you a free one year subscription to their magazine and free books.

Women’s Issues

California Coalition for Women Prisoners – for women in and not-in prisons, transgender and non-binary people, communities of color, writing correspondence program, and offers a newsletter Free to incarcerated people. L.A. Chapter, PO Box 291585, Los Angeles, CA 90029

Buddhist programs and books: 

Naljor Prison Dharma Service – Buddhist materials –  https://sourcepointglobaloutreach.org/naljor-prison-dharma-service/

Insight Meditation Society, 1230 Pleasant St., Barre, Ma. 01005. www.dharma.org/ims. IMS is a Buddhist vipassana meditation center, Inmates may write to receive a free copy of our newsletter, Insight.

Sravasti Abbey, PO Box 1289, Newport, WA. 99156 -9998. A Buddhist monastery in the Tibetan tradition and inmates can receive books and courses from venerable Thubten Chodren.

The Ratna Peace Initiative, Boulder Shambhala Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, CO. 80302. A Tibetan Buddhist study course and Tibetan Buddhist books.

LEGAL INFORMATION

Jailhouse Lawyers Handbook, 2021-6th edition; How to Bring a Federal Lawsuit to Challenge Violation of Your Rights in Prison – National LG Prison Law Project. Write to PO Box 1266, NY, NY 10009

Prison Legal News, PO Box 1151, Lake Worth, Fl. 33460 a monthly publication and prison issues.