DPL News & Views

I came across an interesting web site recently--The Prison Library Project. The mission of the group is to provide reading material free of charge to inmates nationwide. Here is a quote from their web site:

"We believe that everyone deserves access to literature and educational materials, including people trying to work towards social change, self-empowerment or rehabilitation within the incarceration system. The U.S. has less than 5 percent of the world’s population, but more than a quarter of the world’s prisoners. Nearly one percent of American adults are incarcerated, the highest rate in the world, but many prisoners have little access to books or educational material."

Very sobering statistics.