The Appalachian Prison Book Project, a program that aims to rehabilitate inmates by giving them free books to read, has lost their funding and is looking for book donations. The West Virginia University Department of English is accepting donation on the program’s behalf.
The most sought after books from the program are dictionaries, auto repair manuals, psychology textbooks and fiction. And for security purposes, all donations must be paperback. You can donate by following this link.
Pamela Debarr, a volunteer and Administrative Secretary at Mountainlair told The Daily Athenaeum about the program: “Prison systems are designed to create better prisoners. They don’t go in expected to come out a better person. They go in and become less ready for society. My interest is trying to help the inmates to better themselves while they are in there to become more productive.”