Pittsburgh Prison Book Project

08/11/2025

Looking for a good way to connect with your group?

Try a sponsored packing session with PPBP!

Get the team together for a perusal through the stacks and find what one of the many incarcerated readers in PA has been dreaming of reading!

More info here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScAIB6Fp26NDkgkQOld3PFKsZCWHGW711vkcZ9UrK7I4oaTbw/viewform

07/23/2025

Sending our sympathy and condolences to the family and friends of Duane Ready. Duane was a long time volunteer and support of Book ‘Em / PPBP who was always a calm and steady presence in our sometimes chaotic environment. He’ll he missed.

formerly of Hopwood Duane W. Ready, 81, went to be with his Lord Saturday, June 14, 2025, after a courageous battle with cancer, in Uniontown Hospital, with his loving family by his side. He was raised in Hopwood and later moved to Pittsburgh with his mother when he was 12. He kept close ties to [.....

07/10/2025

Catch us on bluesky now!

Pittsburgh Prison Book Project is a volunteer, non-profit org that sends free books and quality reading material to people incarcerated in Pennsylvania https://pghprisonbookproject.org

12/04/2024

12/03/2024

Can you help us hit $1K before noon?! Give Big, Give Small, Every Dollar helps us send books to people on the inside.

I’m ready to support Pittsburgh Prison Book Project on December 3, 2024 during Give Big Pittsburgh 2024. Learn more about Pittsburgh Prison Book Project and all the other organizations participating in Give Big Pittsburgh 2024.

12/02/2024

Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 to resist the consumer trends of Black Friday and Cyber Monday and celebrate the time after Thanksgiving with generosity, gratitude and collaboration. For PPBP, this is one of our biggest donation drives of the year and we are grateful to all who are able to donate and support.

I’m ready to support Pittsburgh Prison Book Project on December 3, 2024 during Give Big Pittsburgh 2024. Learn more about Pittsburgh Prison Book Project and all the other organizations participating in Give Big Pittsburgh 2024.

09/26/2024

We hope you are able to join us this Monday September 30th at Carnegie Library for a special event hosted by CMU's english department with Moira Marquis, editor of "Books through Bars" and Sr. Manager of the Freewrite Project for Pen America and Stevie WIlson, a writer and activists incarcerated in PA.

They'll be discussing book bans in prisons and the movement to fight censorship behind bars. PPBP will be there tabling!

Event details :

This free special event features Moira Marquis, senior manager of the Freewrite Project for PEN America, and Stevie Wilson, an incarcerated writer ...

09/25/2024

Join us Monday evening at Carnegie Library to hear from Moira Marquis and talk about censorship in prisons and the fight for the freedom to read!

This special event features Moira Marquis, Senior Manager of the Freewrite Project for PEN America, and Stevie Wilson, an incarcerated writer in Pennsylvania. Moira and Stevie will be talking about … Continued

09/16/2024

This week we are celebrating with other organizations around the country to bring awarenesss to carceral censorship and put pressure on public officials and prison telecom companies to stop denying incarcerated people access to literature and information!

How you can participate:
-Purchase a book for PPBP this week from White Whale Books & Coffee, City of Asylum or from our bookshop.org wishlist (https://tinyurl.com/5n7p6rmk). A generous donor is matching all purchases!
-Tell your legislators to support books in prison!
-Get some swage or your own copy of "Books Through Bars" https://prisonbannedbooksweek.org/

08/23/2024

We've schedule our next volunteer shelving day for Sunday September 1st and have them on the schedule for the first Sunday of the month through the end of the year!

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07/23/2024

We've got a new volunteer opportunity! Starting to host special volunteer sessions to shelf books and help do some TLC in the space. First one is this Sunday 1-4pm!

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