Ending Carceral Censorship
I’d just sent a report I wrote on prison censorship out for peer review when, scrolling through Instagram two days later, I saw a post from Inside Books, a longstanding, Austin-based prison book...
View ArticleThe Surreal Prison Censorship Regime
The purpose of literature: to instruct and delight. —Horace Prison is horrible, violent and degrading and stagnant. Really the only good thing about it is that there’s plenty of time for reading....
View ArticleMisadventures in Mail Censorship
From August into September 2018, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PADOC) locked down all of its state prisons for two weeks after staff claimed to have been sickened by exposure to...
View ArticleCensoring Women’s Health
“It’s coming out! Down there!” my twenty-year-old handcuffed neighbor, Mina, says through clenched teeth as she passes my door to a mandatory disciplinary hearing. She’s been in prison half her life,...
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