PBS Documentary showing the story of incarcerated individuals working to earn their college degrees.

Creative writing program for people who have experienced incarceration from Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library

A facility-wide book club started by Arapahoe Libraries in the Arapahoe County Detention Facility

Job and life skills program from the Georgetown County Sheriff's office.
This program was funded in part by a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), administered by the South Carolina State Library

Resources for libraries that provide reference services by mail to incarcerated individuals.

Hennepin County Library offers information and links to library resources, programs, and reentry tools to help people released from correctional facilities rejoin their community with greater success.

Program from the NJ State Library providing assistance for citizens returning to their local communities upon completion of their prison terms

Local information and resources from the South Carolina Commission for Minority Affairs, available in print and digital formats

Research guide from the Library of Congress

Toolkit for public libraries & a community of practice with monthly meetings

Resources include job searching, computers and technology, and cleaning up your criminal record.

Goodwill provides pre-release and post-release workforce services for eligible, incarcerated individuals in state correctional facilities or local jails. This program serves Anderson, Greenville, Greenwood, Oconee
Pickens, Spartanburg, Lexington, and Richland counties.

Three guides from the Education Justice Project available as PDFs: Mapping Your Future: A Guide to Successful Reentry in Illinois, Mapping Your Future: National Edition, and A New Path: A Guide to the Challenges and Opportunities After Deportation.

Since 1999, the Read to the Children (RTC) program has allowed offenders in Colorado’s state prisons to send young family members a book accompanied by a recording of the offender reading it. RTC is a collaboration between the Colorado State Library and the Colorado Department of Corrections.

Statistics measuring the effectiveness of Colorado's program to promote family literacy in state prisons.

Recommended book titles for incarcerated parents to read to their children. Books are arranged by age group from 0-13 yrs. old.

Resources from the Child Welfare Information Gateway

Provides resources, fact sheets, and a directory of programs.

High tech, low-tech, and no tech resources for adult education in corrections classroom settings

Adult ESOL Training video series

Training and resources for ESOL and Adult Literacy, including free online courses.

Video tutorials for basic computer skills. Available in English and Spanish and designed for lower literacy levels.

Tutorials covering basic life skills, math, reading, and computers. Offline versions of the tutorials are also available. Created by the Goodwill Community Foundation.

Spanish language online tutorials covering life skills, math, reading, learning English, and computers. Created by the Goodwill Community Foundation International.

Free, downloadable curriculum