Over the past year, during which we sent more than 7,000 packages of reading materials to prisoners, we expanded our efforts to promote education beyond the exchange of books. Our innovative educational
initiatives included:

• A week-long film festival and speaking series, featuring 17 films dedicated to exploring important topics from the prison economy, to the history of prisoner resistance in the 1970s, to the racialized face of immigration detention;
• An expanded service-learning program, which engaged more than 100 local junior high and high school students in vital discussions around prison justice through hands-on, group volunteer sessions;
• Our second annual Read-a-Thon, featuring writings, films, speakers, and readings of our correspondence with prisoners, all around the theme “Instead of Prisons…”;
• A day of programming around the book Grace Before Dying, an exploration in text and photography of the prisoner-led hospice program at Angola Prison;
• The launch of a new correspondence project, Address This!, which will allow prisoners to enroll in courses through the mail, on topics ranging from Black Social Movements to Community Healing and
  Reproductive Justice.