ORLANDO, Fla. — A book that was banned from being circulated inside correctional facilities across Florida will soon be hitting the library shelves in state-run prisons.
Earlier this month, Florida Department of Corrections’ Literary Review Committee overruled two separate rejections of a memoir that recounts the journey of a formerly incarcerated reporter’s time in the New York state prison system.
The book, “Corrections in Ink: A Memoir by Keri Blakinger” was flagged in September for containing content the LRC viewed as “dangerously inflammatory in that it advocates or encourages” unrest or violates FDC rules or laws. The LRC also said the book contained content that “otherwise presents a threat to the security, order or rehabilitative objectives of the correctional system or the safety of any person.”
