After Theo of Golden crossed a prison wall and became a shared reading experience, Teddy’s story reached the author’s team – and led us back to the chapter at the heart of the novel.
When the Story Makes Its Way Back
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Your Sunday Read: | July 26, 2026
This week’s Sunday Read brings together poetry, shared books, transformation, remembrance, and a candid conversation about addiction inside prison—along with updates from the Adopt an Inmate hive and our upcoming 10th Annual Volunteer Weekend.
From Incarceration to Impact: Three Books by Dr. Eric Burnham
While serving a life sentence in Oregon, Dr. Eric Burnham earned his PhD and transformed decades of study, reflection, and lived experience into three books addressing addiction, trauma, emotional intelligence, and healthier relationships. As he approaches a parole hearing this September, we are proud to share the work he has created to help others heal and grow.
Shared Reading with Adopt an Inmate
Inspired by Teddy reading Theo of Golden aloud to his cellmate, Ai is introducing shared reading recommendations to help adopters and adoptees connect through stories — one of the few gifts that can still cross prison walls.
Your Sunday Read: July 27, 2025
Find a cool breeze and let the world slow down for a minute. Here’s your Sunday read. What Still Matters,...
📚 Fact‑Check Friday: Do Prisons Make Us Safer?
🎯 Myth Prisons Make Us Safer Victoria Law’s book Prisons Make Us Safer: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration challenges...
When All the Other Is Gone
This post explores what we lose when we erase the “other,” and what we gain when we protect it.
Hug Your Adoptee this Month: June Edition
👋 Note: To all of our new adopters - welcome! You’re bringing hope and human connection to people who need it most. Whether...
Memorial Week: “To treat a person inhumanely is violence.”
This Army veteran is a writer, teacher, and self-proclaimed coffee-loving book nerd. He also happens to be incarcerated. Today’s Memorial Week post highlights his voice, and the truth that “To treat a person inhumanely is one of the most awful acts there is. To do so is violence; you reduce a person to a thing.”
I Don’t Have a Spirit of Fear — I Have a Spirit of Courage and Might
Matt, formerly incarcerated in New York, reflects on the power of reading, the failures of prison grievance systems, and his hope for a more restorative approach to justice.