prison literacy nonprofit
Books to Prisoners Seattle
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A Seattle nonprofit that mails free books to incarcerated people and supports prisoner literacy and social justice. It scores highly because free educational access for people in prison, volunteer governance, and resistance to prison book bans are unusually strong solidarity and constitutional-spirit facts.
Why this matters: Books to Prisoners adds a Seattle literacy and abolition-adjacent location with exact public headquarters and request-mailing coordinates.
Letter grade A Good Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1
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Evaluation Overview
A - Good
The score turns mainly on Ownership; no penalty currently dominates the evaluation.
Strengths
- Ownership7/10
- Extraction7/10
- Solidarity with the Unemployed7/7
Penalties
- No penalties applied in this version.
Evidence state
- ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
- ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
- Linked claims9
- Direct axis claims9
- Coverage9/12
Scoring Axes
| Axis | Score | Why this score |
|---|---|---|
Ownership
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Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control
at 10.
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7 / 10 |
The linked record identifies Books to Prisoners as a Seattle-based nonprofit organization. Linked evidence
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Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
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6 / 10 |
Books to Prisoners is a volunteer-centered prison book project with public volunteer hours at its Greenwood headquarters. Linked evidence
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Extraction
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Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
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7 / 10 |
Books to Prisoners mails tens of thousands of free books to incarcerated people each year to foster reading, knowledge, and self-empowerment. Linked evidence
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Labor Sovereignty
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Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at
7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence
shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling,
retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of
worker voice, or extreme turnover.
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4 / 7 |
Books to Prisoners mails tens of thousands of free books to incarcerated people each year to foster reading, knowledge, and self-empowerment. Linked evidence
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Solidarity with the
Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment,
and non-competes.
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7 / 7 |
Books to Prisoners serves people in prison who often lack ordinary market access to books and education. Linked evidence
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Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
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7 / 7 |
Books to Prisoners absorbs fundraising, sorting, mailing, and volunteer labor to provide books free of charge to incarcerated requesters. Linked evidence
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Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
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4 / 5 |
Books to Prisoners publishes separate addresses for book requests through Left Bank Books and for volunteer headquarters and business correspondence. Linked evidence
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Product Integrity
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Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
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5 / 5 |
Books to Prisoners mails tens of thousands of free books to incarcerated people each year to foster reading, knowledge, and self-empowerment. Linked evidence
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Scale Integrity
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Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
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5 / 5 |
Books to Prisoners mails tens of thousands of free books to incarcerated people each year to foster reading, knowledge, and self-empowerment. Linked evidence
|
Penalties
No penalties applied in this version.
Bonus Credits
| Bonus | Credit | Why this credit |
|---|---|---|
Openness to Dissent
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Credit for tolerating internal, user, customer, worker, and public
dissent without retaliation, capture, or viewpoint laundering.
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3 / 3 |
Books to Prisoners works with prisoner-literacy and social-justice groups and operates in a context where prison book access is often politically contested. Linked evidence
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Constitutional Spirit
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Credit for respecting constitutional rights and civil-liberties norms
even where private law does not strictly require it.
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3 / 3 |
Books to Prisoners directly advances reading, knowledge, and expressive access for people under state confinement. Linked evidence
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Good Deal
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Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low
lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
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2 / 3 |
Books to Prisoners provides free books rather than charging incarcerated readers for access. Linked evidence
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Confidence Basis
Confidence Basis
Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.
Medium 76/100
9 verified linked claims 9 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 9/12 components covered
This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.
Claim confidence 20/20
9 verified linked claims
Source quality 10/18
Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability
Direct axis-specific claims 9/18
9 direct claims across 12 active components
Dispute load 12/12
0 disputed claims on this entity
Recency 10/10
Newest accepted timestamp: May 16, 2026
Reviewer status 7/12
Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding
Component coverage 8/10
9/12 evidence-bearing components have direct support
Evidence State
Evidence State
Claims and Sources
Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.1Books to Prisoners describes itself as a Seattle-based nonprofit organization.
- Books to Prisoners missionGeneral web source · 58%
2Books to Prisoners is a volunteer-centered prison book project with public volunteer hours at its Greenwood headquarters.
- Books to Prisoners missionGeneral web source · 58%
3Books to Prisoners publishes separate addresses for book requests through Left Bank Books and for volunteer headquarters and business correspondence.
- Books to Prisoners hours and contactGeneral web source · 58%
4Books to Prisoners mails tens of thousands of free books to incarcerated people each year to foster reading, knowledge, and self-empowerment.
- Books to Prisoners missionGeneral web source · 58%
5Books to Prisoners serves people in prison who often lack ordinary market access to books and education.
- Books to Prisoners missionGeneral web source · 58%
6Books to Prisoners absorbs fundraising, sorting, mailing, and volunteer labor to provide books free of charge to incarcerated requesters.
- Books to Prisoners missionGeneral web source · 58%
7Books to Prisoners works with prisoner-literacy and social-justice groups and operates in a context where prison book access is often politically contested.
- Books to Prisoners missionGeneral web source · 58%
8Books to Prisoners directly advances reading, knowledge, and expressive access for people under state confinement.
- Books to Prisoners missionGeneral web source · 58%
9Books to Prisoners provides free books rather than charging incarcerated readers for access.
- Books to Prisoners missionGeneral web source · 58%
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