Prison Book Program

Prison Book Program is an American non-profit organization that sends free books to people in prison. While the organization is based in Massachusetts, it mails packages of books to people in prisons in 45 U.S. states, as well as Puerto Rico and Guam. The program receives letters from people in prison asking for specific titles or genres, which volunteers use to put together a package of books chosen from a small library of donated books. The organization is run out of the basement of the United First Parish Church in Quincy, Massachusetts. Kelly Brotzman currently serves as Executive Director.

History
Prison Book Program was started in 1972 by volunteers working out of the Red Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a leftist bookstore. From 1982-2000, the program was housed in the basement of the Red Sun Press, a print shop in Jamaica Plain. In 2000, volunteers moved to a space in downtown Boston before settling in PBP's current headquarters in the basement of the United First Parish Church in Quincy, Massachusetts in 2004.