DC Books to Prisons
@dcbookstoprisons.bsky.social
Since 1999, DC Books to Prisons has provided free books to incarcerated individuals. https://linktr.ee/dcbtp
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
Thanks to @equalityalec.bsky.social for copies of "Copaganda," which shows the role media, security forces, universities and "liberal" politicians have in growing the security state and ensuring unequal justice. We'll send these to the prison book clubs we support and fulfill individual requests.
October 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Thanks to @equalityalec.bsky.social for copies of "Copaganda," which shows the role media, security forces, universities and "liberal" politicians have in growing the security state and ensuring unequal justice. We'll send these to the prison book clubs we support and fulfill individual requests.
Big Thanks to everyone who donated books to DC Books to Prisons over the last week! The Banned Books Bookdrive was by far our most successful ever, and coupled with the matching cash donation for every book bought from our partner bookstores we’ll be able to keep up and perhaps expand our work.
October 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Big Thanks to everyone who donated books to DC Books to Prisons over the last week! The Banned Books Bookdrive was by far our most successful ever, and coupled with the matching cash donation for every book bought from our partner bookstores we’ll be able to keep up and perhaps expand our work.
Prisons and jails ban more books than all public schools and libraries combined. Throughout the country individual prisons and entire states are implementing more draconian and non-sensical prison book bans, with little public knowledge or outcry.
October 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Prisons and jails ban more books than all public schools and libraries combined. Throughout the country individual prisons and entire states are implementing more draconian and non-sensical prison book bans, with little public knowledge or outcry.
Prisons censor staggering numbers of books and other reading materials, not just for their content but for a stunning range of capricious reasons including the size of a book or the color of mailed wrapping paper.
October 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Prisons censor staggering numbers of books and other reading materials, not just for their content but for a stunning range of capricious reasons including the size of a book or the color of mailed wrapping paper.
@mahoganybooks.bsky.social, in Oxon Hill MD, is collecting books purchased in-store and has a wishlist for us. Through Saturday, October 11, buy a book for DCBtP in-store or from the wishlist and a donor will match the amount of the gift!. Our bookstore wishlists are here - linktr.ee/dcbtp
October 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
@mahoganybooks.bsky.social, in Oxon Hill MD, is collecting books purchased in-store and has a wishlist for us. Through Saturday, October 11, buy a book for DCBtP in-store or from the wishlist and a donor will match the amount of the gift!. Our bookstore wishlists are here - linktr.ee/dcbtp
Today 10/8! Books donated from our @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social wishlist will be delivered to us with no shipping - bookshop.org/wishlists/1f.... Until October 11, when you buy a book for DC Books to Prisons from our wishlists a donor will match the amount of the gift. But today is the best day!!!
October 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Today 10/8! Books donated from our @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social wishlist will be delivered to us with no shipping - bookshop.org/wishlists/1f.... Until October 11, when you buy a book for DC Books to Prisons from our wishlists a donor will match the amount of the gift. But today is the best day!!!
October 7-8 all books purchased from our @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social and @peoplesbooktakoma.com wishlists come with free delivery! With the Banned Books Week Bookdrive, a donor will cash match every book! Right now is the best time to donate to DC Books to Prisons – linktr.ee/dcbtp
October 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
October 7-8 all books purchased from our @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social and @peoplesbooktakoma.com wishlists come with free delivery! With the Banned Books Week Bookdrive, a donor will cash match every book! Right now is the best time to donate to DC Books to Prisons – linktr.ee/dcbtp
Until October 11, buy a book for DC Books to Prisons from the @peoplesbooktakoma.com wishlist and a donor will match the amount of the gift to DCBtP. So the store gets the sale, and we get the book and some money to send them! Check out the wishlist -
bookshop.org/wishlists/fc...
bookshop.org/wishlists/fc...
October 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Until October 11, buy a book for DC Books to Prisons from the @peoplesbooktakoma.com wishlist and a donor will match the amount of the gift to DCBtP. So the store gets the sale, and we get the book and some money to send them! Check out the wishlist -
bookshop.org/wishlists/fc...
bookshop.org/wishlists/fc...
Did you know prisons ban books for format, condition, content, size, quantity, source, or the made-up fear they are all dipped in fentanyl? Throughout the country individual prisons and entire states are implementing more draconian and non-sensical prison book bans.
October 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Did you know prisons ban books for format, condition, content, size, quantity, source, or the made-up fear they are all dipped in fentanyl? Throughout the country individual prisons and entire states are implementing more draconian and non-sensical prison book bans.
@bannedbooksweek.bsky.social starts today! Prisons ban more books than all public schools and libraries combined. All week books donated to us from our partners will be matched. See our @mahoganybooks.bsky.social @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social and @peoplesbooktakoma.com wishlists - linktr.ee/dcbtpp
October 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
@bannedbooksweek.bsky.social starts today! Prisons ban more books than all public schools and libraries combined. All week books donated to us from our partners will be matched. See our @mahoganybooks.bsky.social @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social and @peoplesbooktakoma.com wishlists - linktr.ee/dcbtpp
@bannedbooksweek.bsky.social starts Sunday. Prisons have the most restrictive book bans in the country. All week books donated to us from our bookstore partners will be matched. See our @mahoganybooks.bsky.social, @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social, and @peoplesbooktakoma.com wishlists - linktr.ee/dcbtp
October 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
@bannedbooksweek.bsky.social starts Sunday. Prisons have the most restrictive book bans in the country. All week books donated to us from our bookstore partners will be matched. See our @mahoganybooks.bsky.social, @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social, and @peoplesbooktakoma.com wishlists - linktr.ee/dcbtp
Looking for the perfect book! #booksforpeopleinprison #booksnotbans
September 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Looking for the perfect book! #booksforpeopleinprison #booksnotbans
Big thanks to the Georgetown Library Friends for their generous donation of books. These books will fill hundreds of requests, and will mean the world to the recipients.
September 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Big thanks to the Georgetown Library Friends for their generous donation of books. These books will fill hundreds of requests, and will mean the world to the recipients.
DC BtP provides free informative, educational and enjoyable reading material to inmates in US prisons. Become a monthly donor and help send books to people in prison throughout the year. We are entirely volunteer run, so every dollar sends books to the incarcerated. Donate here - linktr.ee/dcbtp
September 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
DC BtP provides free informative, educational and enjoyable reading material to inmates in US prisons. Become a monthly donor and help send books to people in prison throughout the year. We are entirely volunteer run, so every dollar sends books to the incarcerated. Donate here - linktr.ee/dcbtp
DC Books to Prisons believes in the transformative power of reading. Every book we send helps someone escape into a story or prepare for a better future. But we can only do this with the ongoing support of people like you. Today we’re asking you to become a monthly donor - linktr.ee/dcbtp
September 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM
DC Books to Prisons believes in the transformative power of reading. Every book we send helps someone escape into a story or prepare for a better future. But we can only do this with the ongoing support of people like you. Today we’re asking you to become a monthly donor - linktr.ee/dcbtp
So far this year we have mailed over 3,000 packages of books to prisoners across the country, and we'll send thousands more by the new year. Can you help us with the cost of mailing more books to prisoners? Postage is our largest expense, and every cent is needed! Donate at linktr.ee/dcbtp
July 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
So far this year we have mailed over 3,000 packages of books to prisoners across the country, and we'll send thousands more by the new year. Can you help us with the cost of mailing more books to prisoners? Postage is our largest expense, and every cent is needed! Donate at linktr.ee/dcbtp
Our #1 expense at DCBtP is postage, and when you send around 8,000 packages a year that can really add up! Every cent you can spare helps support out entirely volunteer-run organization and goes towards sending books to those with nowhere else to turn. Donate at linktr.ee/dcbtp
July 11, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Our #1 expense at DCBtP is postage, and when you send around 8,000 packages a year that can really add up! Every cent you can spare helps support out entirely volunteer-run organization and goes towards sending books to those with nowhere else to turn. Donate at linktr.ee/dcbtp
DCBtP needs your help! In 2018 the cost of a one-pound media mail package was $2.66 while today the one-pound rate is $4.47! So far in 2025 we have received 3910 individual requests for books. Can you help us mail books to prisoners? Anything helps! linktr.ee/dcbtp
July 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
DCBtP needs your help! In 2018 the cost of a one-pound media mail package was $2.66 while today the one-pound rate is $4.47! So far in 2025 we have received 3910 individual requests for books. Can you help us mail books to prisoners? Anything helps! linktr.ee/dcbtp
With some help from our Independent Bookstore Day drive, we are able to send 128 books to the prison book clubs we support in three states. You too can donate books to our book clubs, check out dcbookstoprisonets.org. #PrisonBooksWishlists #bookclubs #prisonbookclub #booksforprisoners
June 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
With some help from our Independent Bookstore Day drive, we are able to send 128 books to the prison book clubs we support in three states. You too can donate books to our book clubs, check out dcbookstoprisonets.org. #PrisonBooksWishlists #bookclubs #prisonbookclub #booksforprisoners
Look at all these great and much needed LGBTQ+ books donated to us by our friends at Little District Books! We look so forward to sending these books out to the people who really need them. Happy Pride to all who celebrate! #DCPRIDE #lgbtqbooks #worldpride
June 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Look at all these great and much needed LGBTQ+ books donated to us by our friends at Little District Books! We look so forward to sending these books out to the people who really need them. Happy Pride to all who celebrate! #DCPRIDE #lgbtqbooks #worldpride
Today in Silver Spring! Join us for an informational session about the local non-profit DC Books to Prisons, which has provided free books to incarcerated readers since 1999. Learn about the history of the organization, book censorship in prisons, and how to get involved as a volunteer.
May 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Today in Silver Spring! Join us for an informational session about the local non-profit DC Books to Prisons, which has provided free books to incarcerated readers since 1999. Learn about the history of the organization, book censorship in prisons, and how to get involved as a volunteer.
The President Lincoln Cottage Museum is holding a book drive for us this month! If you're in the neighborhood visit a vert cool museum and help send books to the incarcerated! www.lincolncottage.org
May 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The President Lincoln Cottage Museum is holding a book drive for us this month! If you're in the neighborhood visit a vert cool museum and help send books to the incarcerated! www.lincolncottage.org