PEN America’s new report, Reading Between the Bars, details the many ways prisons censor books.
Marquis, PhD, is senior manager in the Freewrite Project at PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing program; she previously organized programs to supply books in prisonsthe second edition of Merriam-Webster’s Visual Dictionary, purportedly because there was an image of a weapon. This banned title was added to the 10,265 others that incarcerated people can’t read in Texas prisons.
which is the most banned book in America and banned in 19 state prison systems. This cookbook contains stories before each recipe about the way the recipe was developed or a particularly meaningful time it was prepared and eaten. These stories detail what life is like inside and literature that affirms the realities of incarceration are widely censored. Similarly, Robert Greene’sis the second most banned book in prisons.
The censorship becomes even more unfathomable when we consider how this process occurs. Books are banned in prisons by mailroom staff, tasked with skimming them and deciding which ones can be allowed or not. Fifty-four percent of American adultsof employees have while an additional quarter have an associate degree. This means that staff empowered to censor books may have only basic literacy themselves.that requires incarcerated people to purchase literature from a small list of businesses.
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