Yalies join national movement to pass Books through Bars

Every Wednesday night from 6 to 7 p.m., a small group of students and locals congregates at the New Haven Book Bank on Ashmun Street to peruse letters from prisoners and send off packages that inmates from Philadelphia prisons have requested. As suspicious as the gathering sounds, the New Haven chapter of “Books through Bars” is not an underground operation of derelict smugglers, but rather a charitable organization comprised of Yale students and young professionals from the area. Read more about the program in this article from The Yale Herald.