Prison Banned Book Week Reading List

List of recent articles about censorship and book bans in US prisons

1. Prison Banned Book Week

2. Many Prisons Restrict Books to Stop Drug Smuggling. Critics Say It Doesn’t Work.

3. The Surreal Prison Censorship Regime

4. Misadventures in Mail Censorship

5. Literature Locked Up: How Prison Book Restriction Policies Constitute the Nation’s Largest Book Ban

6. The Books Banned in Your State’s Prisons

7. ‘The Art of War,’ Amy Schumer’s memoir and many other books are banned in US prisons. Here’s why

BLOG POSTS

1. WHY I ALMOST WENT TO COURT TO LEARN ITALIAN IN PRISON, JOHN CORLEY

2. IN PRISON, BOOKS ARE ‘SECURITY RISKS’ - RICHARD BEEBE

3. CENSORSHIP STARTS IN THE SHAKOPEE PRISON MAILROOM - ELIZABETH HAWES