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SoLow Redline’s new poetry zine BARS BEHIND BARS published August 2026 from Cook County Jail Find SoLow Redline on Spotify, Soundcloud, Youtube and Facebook. Support SoLow by donating to his CashApp $LiyahMeshell19 Download Zine PDF SoLow can be reached on gettingout.com or by mail: Joseph Lane #20230728042 2700 S California Chicago, IL 60608

High Supreme Saint Scoby has published several essays from Cook County Jail including the zine “Peanut Butter & Jelly Time” about the jail’s terrible food. PB&J Time is also available as a zine. You can find Saint Scoby on Facebook and Instagram. Peanut Butter and Jelly Time I’m writing today from the Dark Side, the… Continue reading Saint Scoby “Peanut Butter and Jelly Time” And Other Writings from Cook County Jail

Independent Bookstore Week begins this Saturday! This week, when you purchase a book for someone in prison at one of our bookstore partners, the price of your purchase will be matched in cash and donated to Midwest Books to Prisoners to help us pay for postage, supplies, and highly requested books, doubling your impact! If… Continue reading Independent Bookstore Week 2026 – Buy a Book for Someone Behind Bars

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”