department of corrections
Olympia Books to Prisoners breaks into maximum security
If you wanted to change the policies of the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC), it would help to be Andrea Robbins. No, she isn’t a high-power ceo with a politician in her pocket, nor does she hold an official government position. She graduated from Evergreen last year and now works at the school’s Center for Community Based Learning and Action (CCBLA) through AmeriCorps vista. She is also one of the “key holders” (volunteer coordinators) for Olympia Books to Prisoners, an organization that fills requests for books from incarcerated people all over the country.