Jail Services
Alameda County Library provides library service and literacy/life skills instruction to men and women held in County jails. Most of the materials circulated each year are donated by members of the community.
- The Write to Read is a comprehensive program bringing library services, programs and literacy to incarcerated youth.
- Reading for Life (RFL) is an intensive and comprehensive 16-week self-sufficiency skills training academy for pre-release, low-literacy level inmates in the Alameda County Jail system.
- The Jail Tutoring program trains and assigns volunteer literacy tutors to English-speaking inmates in the Alameda County Jail who read and write below the eight grade level.
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