Prisoners -- Literary collections

Scope and Contents Publications of works by incarcerated members of book clubs facilitated by the Appalachian Prison Book Project (APBP). Includes one copy of Holding onto Sand, a collection of writings by the incarcerated members of the APBP Book Club at FCI Hazelton, a men’s medium security federal prison in Preston County, West Virginia. Beginning in June of 2016, four APBP volunteers facilitated a book club that met inside the men's medium security federal prison; this...

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Conversations Through the Fence, a creative writing magazine born out of the work of the fall 2017 Inside Out class English 275: Justice and Literature, held at FCI Hazelton, taught by Dr. Katy Ryan, professor of English at West Virginia University. Description of the creation of the magazine is included in issue 1. Contains a PDF and a printout of issue 1.