Rachel McDonnell 4/6/26 Rachel McDonnell 4/6/26

Texas Just Made It Nearly Impossible to Send Books to Its Prisoners — Here's What That Means for the PLP

Rachel McDonnell 3/31/26 Rachel McDonnell 3/31/26

Prison Heatwaves: The Role of Reading in Summer Survival

When it's 100 degrees in a cell with no air conditioning, very few things are possible. The Prison Library Project sent over 7,000 books last summer—because reading can be the only way out.

Rachel McDonnell 3/16/26 Rachel McDonnell 3/16/26

Our Story: Fifty Years of Books Behind Bars

Rachel McDonnell 2/25/26 Rachel McDonnell 2/25/26

A New Barrier to the Right to Read: Texas Prisons Ban Used and Hardcover Books

Rachel McDonnell 9/14/25 Rachel McDonnell 9/14/25

Overcoming Censorship: The Story of Contrabanned

A former nurse. Dental floss. 250 pages sent one letter at a time. Learn how the Prison Library Project helped bring Contrabanned—the first women's health book designed to bypass prison book bans—to women behind bars.