Prisoners & Library Services

• NC DPS 9/18/19 Disapproved Publications List
  
• NC Department of Public Safety policy on correctional facility libraries
• List of NC correctional facilities
• Books for inmates
• Division of Corrections: Library policies and procedures
• Division of Corrections 2018 Banned Book list
• Library services to the Incarcerated & Detained
• Professional tools for Prison Libraries
• Prisoners’ Right to Read: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights
• NY Public Library Correctional Services web page
• Planning & Implementing Prison Libraries: Strategies & Resources
• Example of prison library programs across the country
• Library development survey results—2013
• Banned books and lack of librarians:  reading in NC Prisons
• Books Inside
• Books through Bars
• Books to Prisoners
• LGBT Books to Prisoners
• Prison Book Program
• Prison Book Collective—Durham, NC
• Securus Technologies eBooks Catalogue for Free to Incarcerated Individuals

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