📖 A literary mission: ChicagoBWP partners with wcfbook to get books behind bars. | nlgja CONNECT fellow erinmcsomething
The partnership between Chicago Books to Women in Prison and Women and Children First helps get new books to people behind bars.Vicki White remembers a letter she once received from an incarcerated woman asking for help.The woman was asking for large-print books so she could still continue to read, even though the prison she was at wouldn’t provide her with the seeing aids she needed.
What began in 2002 as a local effort to bring literature behind bars in Illinois has since expanded to send books to women, transgender, and nonbinary people in prison in Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Ohio, as well as all federal prisons. The organization also hand-delivers books to Cook County Jail.White feels strongly that books and literature should be readily available to all people in prison. But that’s not always the case.
In February 2022, the Illinois Department of Corrections relaxed some COVID-19 restrictions and began allowing those incarcerated to access prison libraries again, according to the department. Even still, with the initial wave of the pandemic shifting to the back of many people’s minds, access to books behind bars remains a challenge for many. Most prisons require books to be new. No hardcover books are allowed. Many individual titles and genres remain banned.
Another important need to many in prison is queer literature. The partnership between Chicago Books to Women in Prison and Women and Children First helps fill that niche. Lynn Mooney has been a co-owner of Women and Children First, with business partner Sarah Hollenbeck, since 2014, but the partnership between the bookstore and White’s organization dates back “years and years,” Mooney said with pride.
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