question / pregunta:
I'm looking for information regarding reading groups in prison. So far, I've been able to find some information about a group called Prison Reading Groups in the UK, but I'm wondering if there are any projects like that happening in the States?
Changing Lives Through
Changing Lives Through Literature is a group that works with using reading groups as prison diversion programs, among other stuff.
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@radreference Not sure about reading group info, but we have resources on prison libraries collected on Delicious.com at http://ow.ly/4f2qm
possible leads
Besides everal articles about prison reading groups in the UK, which I'm assuming you've already found:
Megan Sweeney. "Reading and Reckoning in a Women’s Prison." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 50.3 (2008): 304-328. Project MUSE. Web. 21 Jan. 2011.
Also another angle: A public library I where I used to work did prison outreach--maybe look into this more?
ASU Community Connect - Prison Education Program
http://community.uui.asu.edu/Detail.asp?s=a&programID=904
Reading in prison
Follow this link, from the NY Times, about inmates reading to their children while in prison:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/nyregion/26rikers.html?scp=5&sq=prison%20reading%20groups&st=cse
Also follow the link below to ERIC and see if your public library, or academic library, has access to it.
Book Club Goes to Jail: Can Book Clubs Replace Gangs? by Hill, Margaret H.; Van Horn, Leigh from Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, v39 n3 p180-88 Nov 1995
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/detail?accno=EJ515887
(Journal holdings in WorldCat - or request by interlibrary loan from your local library.)