PEN America: Fear That New Texas Policy Will Limit Books Allowed in Prisons
October 04, 2023
October 04, 2023
NEW YORK, Oct. 4 -- PEN America issued the following news release:
Without notification, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has apparently implemented an "approved vendor" policy for its prisons, a type of censorship that PEN America opposes because it can seriously limit the flow of books to incarcerated people by restricting which distributors can send reading materials to prisons.
Moira Marquis, senior manager of PEN America's Freewrite Project . . .
Without notification, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has apparently implemented an "approved vendor" policy for its prisons, a type of censorship that PEN America opposes because it can seriously limit the flow of books to incarcerated people by restricting which distributors can send reading materials to prisons.
Moira Marquis, senior manager of PEN America's Freewrite Project . . .