Services to Incarcerated People and Ex-Offenders
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Lonely, Lost Librarian: Battling Professional Isolation
Tips
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
Blogs
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