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A benefit for Midwest Books To Prisoners @ Not-Not Doors @6PM SHOW @ 7PM $15 NOTALOF Stress positions Deady (KY) Butchers dog (OH) Asko Splitjaw Slit LOVE AND SOLIDARITY FOR ALL 🖤 ❤️ 🖤 ❤️ 🖤 ❤️

✍️ 🎤 💞 💌 ☎️ Valentine’s Day Open Mic! Join us for an intimate evening of performances, zine readings, call-ins from prison and letter writing! Share a song, some words, some snacks – and come early after 12pm to help pack Books To Prisoners. Loved ones inside can call in or prerecord a message to… Continue reading Valentines Day Open Mic

BANNED BOOK WEEK – MATCHED BOOK DONATIONS! It’s Banned Books Week and prisons and jails ban more books than all public schools and libraries combined. Resist prison book banning and support incarcerated readers by purchasing a book (or two or more) from one of our partner indie bookstores! From October 5th – 11th, Hull Family… Continue reading Prison Banned Books Week 2025

Illinois DOC has quietly proposed “Emergency” amendments permitting them to take away physical mail and implement mail digitization. Having published multiple reports exposing the mail scanning scam, we have seen dishonest police and politicians push these lies for over a year. Now we are in the final hour: act now to defend the mail! Read… Continue reading Joint Letter Opposing Illinois JCAR “Emergency” Amendment to Ban Physical Mail and Implement Mail Scanning Throughout Illinois DOC

Zines and other statements from the Grey Owls Committee / Hope For Change organization in Pennsylvania DOC 1st Edition (April 2023) Screen PDF – Imposed for Print PDF 3rd Edition (August 2023) Screen PDF – Imposed for Print PDF 4th Edition (October 2023) Screen PDF – Imposed for Print PDF 5th Edition Part 1 (December… Continue reading Grey Owls Committee – Hope For Change

Eric King is coming to town!! 🤗 Please join us in giving our dear friend a warm welcome on July 10, 7pm, at Pilsen Community Books. We will be discussing Eric’s forthcoming book from PM Press, ‘A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon‘. More than just a book talk, this will… Continue reading Discussion with Eric King “A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon”

View the zine: Screen PDF – Printable PDF View the Prison Censorship Survey results Individual articles: “Stop Mail Scanning in Illinois” by Anthony Ehlers “The Censorship of Ideas is a Form of Psychological Warfare: A Message from the Diversionary Treatment Unit” by Hybachi LeMar Mail Scamming: IDOC’s Own Data Exposes how Politicians and Guard Unions… Continue reading Midwest Prison Censorship Update 2025: Exposing the IDOC Mail Scanning Scam

With Chicago Books to Women in Prison, Midwest Books to Prisoners, and Restore Justice, we will host an event on Thursday, May 29th at 6:30pm to learn more about programs that bring books to incarcerated folks & how to fight mail bans and book ban legislature. This event will include a presentation regarding what each… Continue reading Teach-in on Mail Bans in Prison

We are circulating reports from incarcerated community members asking for outside support to stop ongoing human rights violations at FCI Thomson, a federal prison northwest of Chicago. After yet another manufactured “17 mailroom guards hospitalized” stunt, people living there have been continuously locked down and deprived access to mail/phone communications, visits, outside rec, law library,… Continue reading Human Rights Violations and Lockdowns at FCI Thomson