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Category: Book Bans

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Books vs. Bans: When Prisons Discourage Reading

by Appalachian Prison Book ProjectJanuary 26, 2020March 16, 2020Leave a comment

On January 23, 2020, Dwayne Betts announced that his memoir A Question of Freedom, which chronicles Betts’s time as a young man in prison and how reading saved his life, was officially banned from Virginia state prisons. Last semester, I…

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Waking Up to the Reality of Prison Book Policies

by Lydia WelkerDecember 15, 2019February 10, 20201 Comment

In The Washington Post’s “Book Club” newsletter, critic Ron Charles wrote about access to books in prisons. He highlighted work by Prison Legal News, PEN America, the Prison Policy Initiative, and APBP. Connecting the Dots What I especially appreciate about…

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America’s Largest Book Ban Is Behind Bars

by Appalachian Prison Book ProjectSeptember 23, 2019February 10, 2020Leave a comment

Join the Appalachian Prison Book Project and PEN America during Banned Books Week 2019 to learn more about censorship and banned books in prison. A Rise in Prison Censorship Departments of Corrections (DOCs) often claim that book bans and book…

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