Appalachian book project helps inmates in 6 states.

[powderman]

 
 
http://www.whas11.com/news/national/180497191.html  Appalachian book project helps inmates in 6 states Associated Press  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 9:01 AM
Updated today at 9:04 AM       MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — For people behind bars in six Appalachian states, used books are one of the few forms of escape.
 
Volunteers with the Appalachian Prison Book Project ship hundreds of them wrapped in brown paper to state and federal inmates in West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Other states have had prison book programs for decades. The six Appalachian states had none until six years ago. English professor Katy Ryan and graduate students at West Virginia University started it after realizing the need.
 
They raise money for shipping and use books that are privately donated.
The group corresponds with inmates to see what books they want. Restrictions by the prisons are many, including a ban on spiral-bound books because the wire is a potential weapon. Some institutions refuse books altogether.

[BUGEYE]

If I wanted a life of leisure, I'd commit a crime.
inmates should be too tired to read after a day of hard labor.

[mechanic]

I  told the wife if we ever got down and out, all we had to do was throw a brick through the courthouse window.  Room and board and medical.  TV in the common room.
 
Ben

[BUGEYE]

I  told the wife if we ever got down and out, all we had to do was throw a brick through the courthouse window.  Room and board and medical.  TV in the common room.
 
Ben

I don't know if it's true, but I heard that if the wife has no income, she'd be taken care of while the husband is in jail.