Prison Library Advocacy Questionnaire

From digmovements

This is a set of questions I will be asking those I interview about Prison Library Advocacy. I adapted Charles Tilly's model of analysis to be a bit more personal and basic.

1. What is the main goal for your work here?

2. Specifically, what methods do you use to accomplish this?

3. Do you have public meetings, demonstrations, anything that directly involves the community?

4. Do you have any publications/literature for your program, or is it mainly web based?

5. What other organizations/groups are you affiliated with?

6. Who participates in the program? Community members, city officials? People with personal ties to incarcerated people?

7. Who are the authority figures involved that you communicated with when sending books to prisoners? In other words, what sort of conditions must apply to send these books, and who must you go through to do it?

8. Have there ever been any particular problems with this?

9. Are technologies like the internet changing the way your program works, and how? Do they produce different results comparable to ten years ago?

10. How do you use the internet to your advantage with your program? Have you found that the internet has changed any structure used within your program?

11. What basic rights and freedoms make your program's existence possible? Do any hinder the full capacity of your program?

12. Any comments regarding your program and its function as a catalyst to prison reform, literacy for incarcerated people, etc.?