Library Services to the Justice Involved (LSJI)

Library Services to the Incarcerated and Detained



Library Services for the Justice Involved (LSJI) is an interest group for library professionals, students, correctional staff, volunteers, or anyone who serves the underserved in correctional settings (prison, jail, detention centers, state mental health institutes, juvenile facilities) or justice-involved individuals (those in halfway houses, community corrections, sober living, transitional housing, on parole, or the formerly incarcerated).



Join the LSJI “prison-l” listserv here, and/or join the LSJI community page via ALA Connect.



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Contacts:

Chelsea Jordan-Makely, Co-Chair

Kiera Vargas, Co-Chair

Eldon Ray James, IFLA Liaison