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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward

America’s book bans have already come for prisons

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Jail officials in Florida, briefly, banned a book from the state’s prisons about what life is like… inside a prison.

Last year, passages from the Keri Blakinger’s Corrections In Ink: A Memoir were determined by the state’s Literature Review Committee to be “dangerously inflammatory.” The book itself was deemed a “threat to security, order or rehabilitative objectives of the correctional system or the safety of any person.”

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