3R's Southern Region News

The Carbondale 3R's Project has been very active in Spring, 2015. Community volunteers from CUF's Social Action Committee, the SI Quakers, and Friends of the Carbondale Public Library and Friends of the Sallie Logan Library in Murphysboro helped to choose, pack, and load books and magazines leftover from library book sales for donation to local prison libraries. On April 28, Vienna Correctional Center received 7 boxes of books, and on May 8th, Big Muddy River Correctional Center received 21 boxes of books and 5 bags of magazines from the Carbondale Public Library. On June 3, Big Muddy River Correctional Center obtained 19 boxes of books and 1 bag of magazines from the Sallie Logan Library in Murphysboro, and on June 4, Vienna Correctional Center chose 9 boxes of books from the 3R's book room at First Christian Church in Carbondale and 4 boxes of books from the Sallie Logan Library in Murphysboro.