Work Involved

Do you want to directly touch the lives of prisoners around the country? We rely solely on volunteers to process requests and do other work required to keep the program running.

Some of the tasks volunteers can expect to help with include:

• Read letters from prisoners who request books
• Select books suitable to the request from our book room

• Verify the book selections
• Package the book selections
• Address the packages to the prisoners

• Sort and log incoming book donations
• Scan books (that we cannot use) for sale online
• Stock the bookroom shelves

• Open, read, and sort mail
• Label book requests with prison-imposed restrictions

• Online verification of prisoner locations
• Translating requests
• Special projects

If you would like to help, just come by our office and we'll get you started. Click here for our volunteer hours. There's no need to sign up ahead of time and you can stay for as long as you wish. For your first visit please arrive at 6:30 pm. Please email or call us if you have any questions.