Stories are not just entertainment.
For some, they are a lifeline to hope.

In our experience working in prison reentry, we learned just how much reading materials, sent into prisons meant to inmates. They were a lifeline to hope, the reminder that others cared, the spark for intellectual curiosity and fostered goodness in the most desolate of places.

“But let us not forget that for the punishment to be fruitful, it must have a horizon of hope...otherwise, it is enclosed within itself and is only an instrument of torture, it’s not fruitful.” - Pope Francis

America's system of incarceration goes beyond punitive and into cruel isolation. By providing stories and education, you too, can give back the horizon of hope that fosters growth and reform.