As Part of National Book Banning Week, PEN America to Focus on the Right to Read in the Nation's Prisons
September 12, 2019
September 12, 2019
NEW YORK, Sept. 12 -- PEN America issued the following news release:
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- "Literature Locked Up" will engage authors, readers, and policymakers to support an end to prison book bans nationwide
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America's prison system implements that largest book ban in the United States. This year, as part of national Banned Books Week (Sept. 22 - 28), the free expression and literary organization PEN America will launch a weeklong initiative . . .
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- "Literature Locked Up" will engage authors, readers, and policymakers to support an end to prison book bans nationwide
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America's prison system implements that largest book ban in the United States. This year, as part of national Banned Books Week (Sept. 22 - 28), the free expression and literary organization PEN America will launch a weeklong initiative . . .