Books Behind Bars

We are a volunteer-run prison abolition project that provides free books to incarcerated people. First & only B2P program in New Jersey. Based in Wildwood. 🖤

[NJ Alliance for Immigrant Justice @NJAIJ]

We won’t need to wait for Inauguration Day for detention to come to NJ.

It’s already here.
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[Prison Policy Initiative @PrisonPolicy]

Jails have a perverse incentive to keep people locked up: the millions of dollars state agencies pay them for boarding people serving sentences.

State and federal agencies pay local jails a per-day fee for each person held on their behalf, and these fees can rack up quickly.

[Books Behind Bars @B3BooksNJ]

It’s time for our 5th annual Holiday Card Drive and we need your help! See our website for details: https://t.co/DacYAV8WBd

#HolidayCardDrive #BTPiP #BooksBehindBars #PrisonAbolition #CommunityCare #CareNotCages

[Books Behind Bars @B3BooksNJ]

We need paperback horror & thrillers! Hauntings, ghouls, demons, serial killers, witchcraft, paranormal forces, and more.

Mail to: PO BOX 2611 Wildwood, NJ 08260.

You can also buy specific books off our Amazon Wishlist. Links in bio.

#BooksBehindBars #SendBooksToPrisons

[Books Behind Bars @B3BooksNJ]

Books Behind Bars is kicking off our second annual Holiday Card Drive! We need your help! See our website for details:

https://t.co/DacYAV8oLF

Please share! 💌❄️☃️

#BooksBehindBars #B2P #HolidayCardDrive #HolidayCardDrive2021 #CareNotCages #AbolishThePIC

[Books Behind Bars @B3BooksNJ]

Oh no no no…. We are officially out of manga & anime! Have any you’d like to donate?

Please mail them to us at:
Books Behind Bars
PO BOX 2611
Wildwood, NJ 08260

#BooksBehindBars #BooksToPrisons
#SendingBooksIsSolidarity

[Books Behind Bars @B3BooksNJ]

Join us on March 10th at 5pm for this virtual event with @cmclibrary! We’ll discuss how our program works, why sending books to incarcerated people is so important, and how you can help!
https://t.co/7OydSBQv0J

#BooksBehindBars #CapeMayCountyLibrary #DonateBooks #CommunityCare

[Books Behind Bars @B3BooksNJ]

Another shipment of books went out to our incarcerated neighbors! Shout out to our local USPS workers who are always so kind and patient when we come in with all our packages. 😁 #BooksBehindBars #BooksToPrisoners #CommunityCare #AbolishThePIC

[Books Behind Bars @B3BooksNJ]

These great books are being sent out to an incarcerated woman who requested Black history, activism, feminism, and abolition. It makes us so happy to be able to send out packages like this! 🖤 @marclamonthill @MorganJerkins @DrIbram #BooksBehindBars #SolidarityNotCharity

[Marc Lamont Hill @marclamonthill]

Today, let us remember Martin Luther King as he was: A Black radical anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, revolutionary Christian who was murdered as an enemy of the State. Anything else is just a lie.

[Books Behind Bars @B3BooksNJ]

@knels813 Hi there! Yes we accept paperback books of all genres. https://t.co/nZghrQHXJu Email us when you’re ready to set up a date/time for drop off, or if you have any other questions. Thank you! ☺️

[Books Behind Bars @B3BooksNJ]

We are excited to announce the results of our first annual #HolidayCardDrive! With your help, we were able to send a total of 680 holiday cards to incarcerated people in New Jersey! 🥰 Thank you so much to all who participated. We will do this again next year! #BooksBehindBars

[Young Chicago Authors @YoungChiAuthors]

The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom by
@writeantiracist
is an urgent call to create healthy, sustainable, and empowering classroom communities. Buy it at @haymarketbooks https://t.co/GP4WU4RmHx

[Books Behind Bars @B3BooksNJ]

8 more days to get your cards in for our #HolidayCardDrive!
Help us spread some holiday love to our incarcerated friends! 💌❄️🎄
https://t.co/DacYAV8oLF

[Books Behind Bars @B3BooksNJ]

Just posted a photo https://t.co/J868ilrrgb

[Books Behind Bars @B3BooksNJ]

Just posted a photo https://t.co/RUOkRPmsmz

[Critical Resistance @C_Resistance]

The latest issue of our newspaper #TheAbolitionist is out now! Read all about it & subscribe on our website. The paper is bilingual & free to prisoners in jails, prisons & detention centers.

Support prisoner resistance & political education!

https://t.co/aUDX1qHLeQ

[Books Behind Bars @B3BooksNJ]

We just launched our first annual #HolidayCardDrive and we need your help! Sending in cards is a way for us to share joy, connection, & community with our incarcerated friends.

DETAILS:
https://t.co/DacYAV8oLF

Please share! 💌#BooksBehindBars #AbolitionNow #FreeThemAll

[Books Behind Bars @B3BooksNJ]

We have 13 packages with 17 books, ready to be shipped out this morning! 📦📚
https://t.co/fSouk9X1HN
#booksbehindbars #bookstoprisoners #educationnotincarceration

[Books Behind Bars @B3BooksNJ]

“Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the use of solitary confinement has jumped by 500 percent in America’s prisons.” https://t.co/DFjQkef3zq