Showing posts with label censoring inmate reading material. Show all posts
Showing posts with label censoring inmate reading material. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

GQ, Nat Geo and Cosmo are banned in Arizona prisons. A judge said the rules need to explain why.; The Washington Post, November 12, 2019

Lateshia Beachum, The Washington Post; GQ, Nat Geo and Cosmo are banned in Arizona prisons. A judge said the rules need to explain why.

"The Arizona Department of Corrections must define clear rules about what prisoners can read, according to a district judge...

The judge’s decision underscores the problem of censoring inmate reading material and the indeterminate manner in which jails and prisons prohibit or grant what incarcerated people can read, prisoner rights advocates say."