A month ago, I posted about the Center for Inquiry’s new initiative to send freethought books to prisoners, giving them something to read besides the Bible, as well as coordinate a pen-pal program between inmates and volunteers.
At the time, the website for the project was still bare-bones, but that’s no longer the case. CFI offers this update:
In December, we sent out a total of 45 shipments, one to each of these individuals, including a total of 130 books and 20 magazines. A month ago, we wouldn’t have had the resources to make this happen.
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One of our contacts (kept anonymous), recently released from her sentence, had this to say about what the books and the experience with Freethought Books Project mean to her:
“After 41 years of not knowing what I want to do when I grow up I have finally figured it out. I am already looking into going to school so I can someday join the fight for secularism and basic scientific understanding. I don’t know exactly what I will major in yet but I have a direction as never before.”
Want to help make more stories like this possible? Here’s how you can help:
1) Purchase something from the project’s Amazon Wish List.
2) Purchase any book from Pitchstone Publishing for $10.
3) Send your freethought books directly to CFI.
4) Donate directly to the project, helping pay for shipping, postage, etc.
Anything helps, so please do what you can!
