NYC Books Through Bars

Volunteers sending donated, radical books to people in prisons in 40 states. 🕊💕📚 Currently, we are not hosting volunteer packing sessions due to COVD-19.

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Between 200 and 300 packages per week are typically sent out.

This monthly program helps fulfill requests in categories we might be understocked in at a given time. Your generosity has helped us collect books for incarcerated, including 5,000 works on social and ...

[NYC Books Through Bars @BtBsNYC]

criminal justice, history, and ethnic studies, 3,500 novels, 2,000 graphic fiction and manga books, 2,500 dictionaries, 1,500 art appreciation and instruction guides, and now 2,000 almanacs.

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Since Freebird Books began this drive in June of 2020 in reaction to the COVID-19 quarantine (which shut down volunteer sessions and in-person drop offs at the store), we havr been able to keep up with the steady demand from incarcerated readers across the country.

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While donations of used books in this category continue to be dropped off at the store (and please keep them coming), prisons are establishing higher thresholds for the condition and wear-and-tear of the copies.

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For June 2026 we reprise our Pride promotion with a variety pack of LGBTQ+ related titles. Your $30 will allow us to purchase three copies from a list narrowed down by us, including works of fiction (genre and literary), memoirs, humor, history, and even adult coloring books.

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After a few months off from promoting book bundles (the last almanac campaign yielded 500 copies!), we are back to mark our 30th anniversary and efforts to provide the incarcerated with reading material--against a backdrop ever more stringent restrictions.

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program to help support their mission. For $30 (aptly for 30 years!) we will purchase a variety of LGBTBQ+ titles.

Please help us stock up on LGBTQ+ titles in their anniversary year.
$30 purchases an assortment of three titles*

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The NYC Books Through Bars Bundle is BACK!!!! Order at https://t.co/EPhGwhaz3O
2026 marks the 30th anniversary of Books Through Bars NYC, and while we will celebrate that milestone throughout the rest of the year, we return with our book bundle...

[NYC Books Through Bars @BtBsNYC]

criminal justice, history, and ethnic studies, 3,500 novels, 2,000 graphic fiction and manga books, 2,500 dictionaries, 1,500 art appreciation and instruction guides, and now 2,000 almanacs.

[NYC Books Through Bars @BtBsNYC]

The NYC Books Through Bars Bundle is BACK!!!! Order at https://t.co/EPhGwhaz3O
2026 marks the 30th anniversary of Books Through Bars NYC, and while we will celebrate that milestone throughout the rest of the year, we return with our book bundle...

[NYC Books Through Bars @BtBsNYC]

Between 200 and 300 packages per week are typically sent out.

This monthly program helps fulfill requests in categories we might be understocked in at a given time. Your generosity has helped us collect books for incarcerated, including 5,000 works on social and ...

[Bring Dave McClary Home @bringdaveh0me]

Meet David McClary, a community member of Jamaica, Queens who has been incarcerated for 38 years. Since 2012, he’s been eligible for parole but has been denied on 8 occasions. Help bring Dave home by submitting a letter at the link in our bio. #NoOneIsDisposable #BringDaveHome

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the Anarchist Black Cross Federation https://t.co/4JLp20lmcC

And

The Jericho Movement https://t.co/Uk5E6o1fOE

have been actively engaged in principled political prisoner support since the 90s. they would never support a damn snitch. really appreciate what they do

[Free Peppy And Krystal @FreePandK]

Good News! Peppy entered the halfway-house today!

"I exited the closed prison today for the open prison of “community confinement”,a half-way house. From within and against these prisons,it is clear that abolition is only rational if we seek war’s end."
https://t.co/mW1QylXzHW

[ADayToRemember @ADayIn1920]

this is serious.
freedom for Xinachtli! check out this article then check out his support committee's website!
https://t.co/M2hwYNEYHR
freedom for this revolutionary elder whose health is deteriorating!