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| Book 'Em shipments brighten Pennsylvania inmates' lives |
| By .post-gazette.com - Diana Nelson Jones |
| Published: 04/08/2013 |
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For the hundreds of books that volunteers package each month in the basement of the Thomas Merton Center in Garfield, thank-you letters trickle in from inmates in Pennsylvania's prisons. Suzanne Powell, a retired teacher who co-coordinates the volunteer project called Book 'Em at the Merton Center, said she treasures every letter but they are not her motivation for spending six hours a week managing the collection of donated books and the database of prisoners who receive them. "I love to read and can't imagine sitting in a cell without a book," she said. "Some prisoners write to say they have read every book in the prison library and that some have pages missing." The basement of the Merton Center has been the home of Book 'Em for a decade. The all-volunteer group's original goal was to supply books to inmates nationwide, but that was scaled back about five years ago to solely serve Pennsylvania's inmates. Read More. |
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