The SeniorLearn Prison Library Project (PLP) is a volunteer project to fulfill an important need for books to the libraries of selected prisons. Currently we are working with the South Carolina Department of Corrections and the 22,000 prisoners the South Carolina libraries serve in 19 prisons, and the York Correctional Institution in CT which houses over 1,300 women ranging in age from 14 to more than 60 years of age, with potential expansion to other prison systems. Read about the needs of the York Correctional Institution.

As of 2007, over 5,000 books have been donated!

Everyone is welcome to volunteer: Read a profile about this volunteer project.
A brief history of this project: As a result of Author Wally Lamb's meeting with SeniorNet Book volunteers at the National Book Festival in 2003, his generosity in coming into our discussion of his book, and his fine work in prison education, volunteers and members of SeniorNet (now members of SeniorLearn) who learned more about the lives of individuals in prison began this project in 2004.

Letter from Wally Lamb on January 28, 2007, on the occasion of the project reaching 5,000 books donated!

Dear SeniorNet Members,
It's one thing to begin an initiative, quite another to keep it alive over the long haul. Congrats to all involved with the SeniorNet Prison Library Project--and a big hug for its overseer, the amazing Ginny Anderson--on having reached the five thousand book milestone in your admirable effort to put life-affirming literature into the hands of the incarcerated.

Illiteracy and inaccessibility to the written word are prisons, too, and so with each book gathered, lugged, and shipped to inmates, you help to set minds free. I salute you all on a job magnificently done. Your humanity is commendable and your project sends a loud, clear message to the incarcerated that they are not forgotten.

Sincerely,
Wally Lamb