Prison Book Program
About
Prison Book Program is a Quincy nonprofit that has supported the freedom to read since 1972 by sending free books to people in prison. Volunteers mail packages of carefully selected books from the program’s library. It is an approved book vendor at more than 1,000 prisons and jails in all 50 states, Guam and Puerto Rico, and the books have always been, and will remain, completely free to the people who receive them.
The work runs on volunteers and donations. Volunteer sessions take place several afternoons and evenings a week in the basement of the United First Parish Church in Quincy Center, the granite church with the gold dome, and the program’s mailing address is in care of the Lucy Parsons Bookstore. Donors can drop off books during volunteer hours, and financial gifts help cover the postage needed to mail each package of books.
What to Know
- Volunteers must sign up in advance, while book drop-offs do not require sign-up.
- Quincy Center station on the Red Line (Braintree branch) and commuter rail is a short walk away.
- Free street parking is available on Sundays and after 6 p.m.; daytime spots have time limits.
- Use the basement stairs at the back of the church near the traffic light, not the park side.
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