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Words Stretching Beyond Bars and Walls

All volunteer | Not-for-profit | Since 1994
Serving incarcerated women & transgender prisoners across the US

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Help us fulfill book requests and stay in touch with WPBP’s readers.

Donate your gently-used books to WPBP to send and sell, or buy from our wish lists.

Help us keep the lights on and feed our hungry postage machine.


COVID-19 Response

Learn more about WPBP response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Thanks from our readers

I want to thank you all for your dedication and perseverance in helping us ‘forgotten ones’… Some people may take your endeavors for granted…. But I sincerely appreciate your support. I sit alone in a Solitary Confinement Administrative Segregation 23.5 hours a day lockdown, cell… and books are my way outside these steel stone walls.

 Our library is completely shut down & has been since March. You can’t imagine how much these books meant to us to keep our spirits up. Faces would light up as I passed the books under the door & I know they were read several times by several ladies. We appreciate the kindness of strangers! I’m thankful for you all & for your program.

All in all you have helped me in your gifts, to keep my sanity in such a crazy, chaotic place. I am forever indebted to you and yours for these gifts. I have been receiving books from you for quite some time now and feel blessed for the opportunities you have given me to expand my mind as well as my life.


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The Women’s Prison Book Project is a 501(c) (3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization (Tax ID #41-1977201).