DC Books to Prisons
@dcbookstoprisons.bsky.social
Since 1999, DC Books to Prisons has provided free books to incarcerated individuals. https://linktr.ee/dcbtp
Happy New Year's to everyone! 2025 was a trying year for us all, but trough the end of the year, a generous donor has offered to match all donations made to us up to $10,000! Every dime we get goes directly to sending books to the incarcerated.
Donate here > linktr.ee/dcbtp
Donate here > linktr.ee/dcbtp
December 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Happy New Year's to everyone! 2025 was a trying year for us all, but trough the end of the year, a generous donor has offered to match all donations made to us up to $10,000! Every dime we get goes directly to sending books to the incarcerated.
Donate here > linktr.ee/dcbtp
Donate here > linktr.ee/dcbtp
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our January Mario Kart Grand prix will be next Saturday the 3rd, raising funds for DC Books to Prisons!
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tickets: stores.comichub.com/fantom_comic...
December 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
our January Mario Kart Grand prix will be next Saturday the 3rd, raising funds for DC Books to Prisons!
tickets: stores.comichub.com/fantom_comic...
tickets: stores.comichub.com/fantom_comic...
Double your impact! A generous donor has offered to match all donations up to $10,000 through the end of the year! We are a completely volunteer-run org working out of a donated space, so you every dime we get goes directly to sending books to the incarcerated.
Donate now > linktr.ee/dcbtp
Donate now > linktr.ee/dcbtp
December 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Double your impact! A generous donor has offered to match all donations up to $10,000 through the end of the year! We are a completely volunteer-run org working out of a donated space, so you every dime we get goes directly to sending books to the incarcerated.
Donate now > linktr.ee/dcbtp
Donate now > linktr.ee/dcbtp
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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Today, Saturday 12/20! Come get a book or two @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social and DC Books to Prisons will wrap it for free! (Though of course donations will be accepted!) Shop local, take care of some last minute Xmas shopping, and support the cause! We'll be there from 9-9 at 600 H St. in DC.
December 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Today, Saturday 12/20! Come get a book or two @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social and DC Books to Prisons will wrap it for free! (Though of course donations will be accepted!) Shop local, take care of some last minute Xmas shopping, and support the cause! We'll be there from 9-9 at 600 H St. in DC.
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by Kwaneta Harris, incarcerated writer in Texas
sfonline.barnard.edu/our-bodies-t...
sfonline.barnard.edu/our-bodies-t...
Our Bodies, Their Currency: Parenthood and Survival in Texas’s Carceral System
The following piece is both a condemnation and a call to action — a raw testimony that exposes how sexual extortion operates as official policy disguised as individual corruption. I write this as…
sfonline.barnard.edu
December 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
by Kwaneta Harris, incarcerated writer in Texas
sfonline.barnard.edu/our-bodies-t...
sfonline.barnard.edu/our-bodies-t...
DC Books to Prisons is 100% volunteer run, so every cent we raise goes to sending books to people in prison. For the rest of the year every donation made to out program will be matched, up to $10,000! Double your impact at linktr.ee/dcbtp
December 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
DC Books to Prisons is 100% volunteer run, so every cent we raise goes to sending books to people in prison. For the rest of the year every donation made to out program will be matched, up to $10,000! Double your impact at linktr.ee/dcbtp
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AP finds federal and state authorities in Louisiana are monitoring the online activities of ICE critics. Chilling. apnews.com/article/immi...
Records reviewed by AP detail online monitoring, arrests in New Orleans immigration crackdown
State and federal authorities are monitoring online criticism and protests against the immigration crackdown in New Orleans.
apnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
AP finds federal and state authorities in Louisiana are monitoring the online activities of ICE critics. Chilling. apnews.com/article/immi...
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#GivingTuesday has passed, big thanks to the generous donors who helped. We are a volunteer-run org, so every dime we raise goes to send books to the incarcerated. You can still make a donation, and until the end of the year, all donations will be matched up to $10,000! Help us at linktr.ee/dcbtp
December 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
#GivingTuesday has passed, big thanks to the generous donors who helped. We are a volunteer-run org, so every dime we raise goes to send books to the incarcerated. You can still make a donation, and until the end of the year, all donations will be matched up to $10,000! Help us at linktr.ee/dcbtp
#GivingTuesday has passed, big thanks to the generous donors who helped. We are a volunteer-run org, so every dime we raise goes to send books to the incarcerated. You can still make a donation, and until the end of the year, all donations will be matched up to $10,000! Help us at linktr.ee/dcbtp
December 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
#GivingTuesday has passed, big thanks to the generous donors who helped. We are a volunteer-run org, so every dime we raise goes to send books to the incarcerated. You can still make a donation, and until the end of the year, all donations will be matched up to $10,000! Help us at linktr.ee/dcbtp
It's Giving Tuesday! We receive 500-800 letters a month from people requesting books, and we need your help. Every dollar donated goes toward sending books to the incarcerated, and right now a donor is matching all donations up to $10,000! This #GivingTuesday help us send books at linktr.ee/dcbtp
December 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
It's Giving Tuesday! We receive 500-800 letters a month from people requesting books, and we need your help. Every dollar donated goes toward sending books to the incarcerated, and right now a donor is matching all donations up to $10,000! This #GivingTuesday help us send books at linktr.ee/dcbtp
Tomorrow is #GivingTuesday! The people we serve use books to improve their education, plan for their future careers, and as a distraction from the realities of prison life. Help us send books to the people who need them, and a donor will match everything up to $10,000I Donate at linktr.ee/dcbtp
December 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Tomorrow is #GivingTuesday! The people we serve use books to improve their education, plan for their future careers, and as a distraction from the realities of prison life. Help us send books to the people who need them, and a donor will match everything up to $10,000I Donate at linktr.ee/dcbtp
Thanks to everyone who came to @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social yesterday and got some books wrapped up for the holiday! Enjoyed supporting a local bookstore on Small Business Saturday and we appreciate their support for our cause. #SmallBusinessSaturday #BooksToPeopleInPrison
November 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Thanks to everyone who came to @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social yesterday and got some books wrapped up for the holiday! Enjoyed supporting a local bookstore on Small Business Saturday and we appreciate their support for our cause. #SmallBusinessSaturday #BooksToPeopleInPrison
Join us for complimentary gift wrapping on all purchases @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social at 600 H Street NE today! Shop local, enjoy the festive and giving vibes, and check a few presents off your list. #IndieBookstore #shoplocal #shopsmall #BooksToPeopleInPrison
November 29, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Join us for complimentary gift wrapping on all purchases @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social at 600 H Street NE today! Shop local, enjoy the festive and giving vibes, and check a few presents off your list. #IndieBookstore #shoplocal #shopsmall #BooksToPeopleInPrison
This Thanksgiving, we thank our volunteers. DCBtP keeps growing, providing more resources to men and women in facilities nationwide. We can only do this because of our dedicated volunteers. Thank you for filling requests, packaging books, calling prisons and beyond. Those we serve thank you too.
November 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This Thanksgiving, we thank our volunteers. DCBtP keeps growing, providing more resources to men and women in facilities nationwide. We can only do this because of our dedicated volunteers. Thank you for filling requests, packaging books, calling prisons and beyond. Those we serve thank you too.
🎁✨ Small Business Saturday Celebration! ✨🎁
Shop local this Saturday at @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social, 600 H Street, and DC Books to Prisons volunteers will gift wrap the books you purchase for free! Shop small and help us spread cheer! #SmallBusinessSaturday #IndieBookstore #shoplocal #shopsmall
Shop local this Saturday at @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social, 600 H Street, and DC Books to Prisons volunteers will gift wrap the books you purchase for free! Shop small and help us spread cheer! #SmallBusinessSaturday #IndieBookstore #shoplocal #shopsmall
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
🎁✨ Small Business Saturday Celebration! ✨🎁
Shop local this Saturday at @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social, 600 H Street, and DC Books to Prisons volunteers will gift wrap the books you purchase for free! Shop small and help us spread cheer! #SmallBusinessSaturday #IndieBookstore #shoplocal #shopsmall
Shop local this Saturday at @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social, 600 H Street, and DC Books to Prisons volunteers will gift wrap the books you purchase for free! Shop small and help us spread cheer! #SmallBusinessSaturday #IndieBookstore #shoplocal #shopsmall
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We need to keep talking about the situation in Bernalillo County MDC, where ALL paper books--including personal possessions--were taken away from incarcerated people earlier this year. The proposed replacement is a tablet with extremely limited book options.
www.kob.com/new-mexico/p...
www.kob.com/new-mexico/p...
Paper book ban sparks independent audit of Metropolitan Detention Center
A new policy at MDC removing paper books and paper letters from inmates is under scrutiny.
www.kob.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
We need to keep talking about the situation in Bernalillo County MDC, where ALL paper books--including personal possessions--were taken away from incarcerated people earlier this year. The proposed replacement is a tablet with extremely limited book options.
www.kob.com/new-mexico/p...
www.kob.com/new-mexico/p...
Good times at the @dcpunkflea.bsky.social yesterday, spreading the word and raising funds for the cause! #BookstoPeopleinPrison
November 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Good times at the @dcpunkflea.bsky.social yesterday, spreading the word and raising funds for the cause! #BookstoPeopleinPrison
We'll be tabling at the @dcpunkflea.bsky.social this Saturday! We'll have zines, stickers, buttons, and all the program info you desire! This is one of my favorite things to do all year, cool people, good vibes, and lots of neat vendors with gifts or the holidays! Don't miss out and come say hi!
November 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
We'll be tabling at the @dcpunkflea.bsky.social this Saturday! We'll have zines, stickers, buttons, and all the program info you desire! This is one of my favorite things to do all year, cool people, good vibes, and lots of neat vendors with gifts or the holidays! Don't miss out and come say hi!
Looking so forward to tabling here next week!
November 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Looking so forward to tabling here next week!
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40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
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The final numbers are in from the Banned Books Week Book Drive, and it was our most successful ever! Thanks to all of you, we received 406 new paperback books, as well as over $5,300 in matching funds! We are already sending those books out to the incarcerated populations we serve. linktr.ee/dcbtp
November 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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The final numbers are in from the Banned Books Week Book Drive, and it was our most successful ever! Thanks to all of you, we received 406 new paperback books, as well as over $5,300 in matching funds! We are already sending those books out to the incarcerated populations we serve. linktr.ee/dcbtp
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The final numbers are in from the Banned Books Week Book Drive, and it was our most successful ever! Thanks to all of you, we received 406 new paperback books, as well as over $5,300 in matching funds! We are already sending those books out to the incarcerated populations we serve. linktr.ee/dcbtp
November 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The final numbers are in from the Banned Books Week Book Drive, and it was our most successful ever! Thanks to all of you, we received 406 new paperback books, as well as over $5,300 in matching funds! We are already sending those books out to the incarcerated populations we serve. linktr.ee/dcbtp
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She's voicing important things about prison censorship:
1. Oversight to stop harmful decisions needs to happen NOW.
2. Mailrooms claim ANYTHING on a book is "drugs". Proof? Who cares!
Thank you for speaking up. It coincides perfectly with #PrisonBannedBooksWeek2025.
www.tmj4.com/about-us/lig...
1. Oversight to stop harmful decisions needs to happen NOW.
2. Mailrooms claim ANYTHING on a book is "drugs". Proof? Who cares!
Thank you for speaking up. It coincides perfectly with #PrisonBannedBooksWeek2025.
www.tmj4.com/about-us/lig...
Wisconsin woman challenges prison's book ban after warden blocks humorous gift
A Wisconsin woman is speaking out after a state prison warden refused to allow a book she purchased as a gift to reach an inmate, despite the book being shipped from an authorized vendor.
www.tmj4.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM
She's voicing important things about prison censorship:
1. Oversight to stop harmful decisions needs to happen NOW.
2. Mailrooms claim ANYTHING on a book is "drugs". Proof? Who cares!
Thank you for speaking up. It coincides perfectly with #PrisonBannedBooksWeek2025.
www.tmj4.com/about-us/lig...
1. Oversight to stop harmful decisions needs to happen NOW.
2. Mailrooms claim ANYTHING on a book is "drugs". Proof? Who cares!
Thank you for speaking up. It coincides perfectly with #PrisonBannedBooksWeek2025.
www.tmj4.com/about-us/lig...