Wondering the sometimes seeming aimless veering roads of Austin, you might have inadvertently passed it, or perhaps you pass it everyday, never noticing, ever emoji-texting. The Austin Inside Books Project, a 501(c) non-profit, sits inauspiciously near the corner of 12th and Airport responding to requests for knowledge from Texas inmates, quietly promoting literacy and education to an ever growing and highly marginalized population segment. After researching more into this organization, I couldn’t help but be reminded of another worthy book project called BooksFORSoldiers, which corresponds to provide literature and media to servicemen and women deployed overseas.
“Inside Books Project is an Austin-based community service volunteer organization that sends free books and educational materials to prisoners in Texas. Inside Books is the only books-to-prisoners program in Texas, where over 140,000 people are incarcerated. Inside Books Project works to promote reading, literacy, and education among incarcerated individuals and to educate the general public on issues of incarceration.”
Featured on the Austin Awareness Map:
https://www.artisinformation.org/info-node/austin-awareness-map/