560 books for Donovan

On behalf of the Donovan residents, a huge THANK YOU!  Much gratitude in this month of thanksgiving. Many of you responded to the call for books.  One person ran a university-wide drive; several of you shipped books; still others offered what they had and lightened their bookcases in preparation for moves.

Thanks to you, we're bringing over 560 books to Donovan!!!!  That's enough to supply the libraries across ALL yards, including Administrative Segregation (AdSeg or the "hole")!  Books have become critical in this season of unprecedented confinement conditions in our prisons.  In our bimonthly correspondence with our inside team, several of them mention the rescue and escape their books provide AND, unknowing of the book drive, they speak of the decreasing supply of books of interest.

Self-help books.  Biology and physics books.  Spirituality and wellbeing.  Bibles and daily devotionals.  Meditation and cooking.  Spy novels and mysteries.  Self-discovery and breathing books.  Mystical and inner transformation.  History books.  Political analyses.  Non-fiction and fiction.  Law and legal books. You name it, it's in these boxes.

As we near this country's most significant holiday, we wish you joy, thanksgiving, health and yummy meals with family.  As some of you may choose to spend Thanksgiving with less family members this year, we offer you what we tell the guys every year:  They are with us at our Thanksgiving tables.  We take a moment to celebrate their lives, their choices, their brilliance and their transformations.  May you bring your distant family members and those dear in a similar manner that matters to you.