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Beautiful. “Parton, the country music icon, started the program in Sevier County, Tenn., 24 years ago through her Dollywood Foundation. The Imagination Library has since mailed 115 million free books to children in the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom.”
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A free ebook about Lebanon's history:
This is the first history of Lebanon from the Ottoman Empire to the modern period. Based on previously inaccessible archives, it is a fascin
Prison Banned Books Week: Being in Jail Shouldn’t Mean Having Nothing to Read
By Will Greenberg and Brendan Gilligan
Across the United States, nearly every state’s prison system offers some form of tablet access to incarcerated people, many of which boast of sizable libraries of eBooks. Knowing this, one might assume that access to books is on the rise for incarcerated folks. Unfortunately, this is not the case. A combination of predatory pricing, woefully inadequate eBook catalogs, and bad policies restricting access to paper literature has exacerbated an already acute book censorship problem in U.S. prison systems.
New data collected by the Prison Banned Books Week campaign focuses on the widespread use of tablet devices in prison systems, as well as their pricing structure and libraries of eBooks. Through a combination of interviews with incarcerated people and a nationwide FOIA campaign to uncover the details of these tablet programs, this campaign has found that, despite offering access to tens of thousands of eBooks, prisons’ tablet programs actually provide little in the way of valuable reading material. The tablets themselves are heavily restricted, and typically only designed by one of two companies: Securus and ViaPath. The campaign also found that the material these programs do provide may not be accessible to many incarcerated individuals.
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This is amazing; yay libraries.
