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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
Books to Prisoners, an organization run by the bookstore Left Bank Books, has been accumulating lists of banned books in various prisons for years. You can see the information here: http://www.bookstoprisoners.net/banned-book-lists/.
In my state, for example, everything from How to Draw Birds to Fifty Shades of Gray are banned. Sure, there is also a ton of stuff on the list that is pornography or clearly violent, etc. But I do know that the list is not static. A warden can see a book come in and decide only after the prisoner has paid for it that it is going on the banned list. It is confiscated and the prisoner doesn't get his book or his money back. |
Here, NZ, prisoners cannot make most types of purchases or conduct financial transactions outside of the prison without pre-approval of the specific purchase or transaction. In any event the purchase of anything by a prisoner to be delivered to the prison has to be preapproved as to the item, the source and the deliverer before purchase. So there should be no case of prisoner legitimately bought books being banned on arrival.
As far as I am aware this is generally the case in Australia as well. I would be surprised if that is not normally the case in the USA too??
Here, as far as I know, delivery of prisoner subscribed magazines and papers to the prison for the prisoner is banned as a matter of policy due to risk.