Services to Incarcerated People and Ex-Offenders

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Lonely, Lost Librarian: Battling Professional Isolation

Tips

Re-Entry: Second Chance Act

Tip Sheets

• Facts About Prisons and Prisoners (pdf)
• Prisoners Re-Entering the Community(pdf)
• Teaching in Prisons(pdf)

Behind the Walls @ Your Library Column

Glennor Shirley, column editor

• Addressing Frequently Asked Questions May 2008, no. 13
• Bookmobiles on Parade: A Visit from an Exoffender September 2007, no. 12
• Telecommuting Librarian, Part 2 July 2007, no.11
• Telecommuting Librarian, May 2007, no.10
• Censorship and Prison Libraries, February 2007, no.9
• Prison Libaries Help Inmates Get Over the Fence: Reducing Barriers to Reentry, August 2006, no.8

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Articles

• The New Yorker: HELLHOLE by Atul Gawande
• Breaking Barriers with Books: Connecting Incarcerated Fathers with their Children by Vibeke Lehmann
• Prisoners of the Census: How the Incarcerated are Counted Distorts our Politics from the Progressive States Network

Bibliographies

•  Library Services for Incarcerated Populations - Annotated Bilbliography (doc)

Blogs

• Jails Librarian 
• Prison Librarian

Other Resources

• Citzens United for Rehabilitation of Errants 
• Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons: Confronting Confinement Report 
• Family and Corrections Network - Reading Room
• Family and Corrections Network - Children's Books
• Felony Disenfranchisement Laws in the United States 
• Maryland Correctional Education Libraries (Includes a directory of state prisoner libraries with contact information)
• One in 31: The Long Reach of American Corrections 
• Prison Policy Initiative 
• Just Detention International 
• SOL (Spanish in Our Libraries) and PLUS (Public Libraries Using Spanish)
• Urban Institute Publications on Corrections and Prisoners 
• Vera Institute