Prison Stats

As of July, 2024, we have given 10,159 books to 102 prisons this year.
Of these 2846 have gone to individuals and 7313 to wing libraries and other projects within prisons

Books have gone to more than  800 named individuals - many making repeat requests.

We estimate that our books must reach in excess of 4000 people within the prison estate.

 

Not included in these figures are books we send to families of people in prison via various projects such as Out There and NEPACS

 

Projects inside prisons that we are supporting with our books:

Mental health coffee shop

Music school

Substance-free living

Wing libraries - including for vulnerable prisoners

Book groups

Warehouse training course

Multilingual library room

Bedtime reading

World Book Day

Peer mentoring (mental health, ESL, reading support)

Wing quizzes, including older prisoners

First Nighters

Basic literacy/phonics

Peer maths teaching