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First Time Ever Holiday Appeal for the RCPP

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Dear Friends, It is difficult to to this, but I feel like I have no alternative. As may know it has been many years since the Real Cost of Prisons Project received any funding. The cost of mailing comic books to prisoners (usually around fifteen per week at $1.52 per set for postage), larger quantities to organizers, literacy projects, community groups organizing against new prisons, books through bars projects, etc., paying for the hosting of the website (www.realcostofprisons.org) and this blog are all borne by me and my spouse. All of the work I do is unpaid. At this point I am collecting social security having turned 62 but social security is not enough and the RCPP has become a major drain on our finances. If you use the comic books (more than 120,000 have been sent, the website, this news blog, or have asked for and received information and requests for connections to others doing similar work, I ask you to consider making a tax deductible donation to keep the RCPP going...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 23, 2009 (boomark / email).