Texas Department of Criminal Justice Censorship Records
Dublin Core
Title
Texas Department of Criminal Justice Censorship Records
Subject
Censorship
Reading in prisons
Books to prisons programs
Description
Records from TDCJ mailrooms banning books sent to incarcerated patrons from Inside Books Project. Patrons can choose to pay to mail back the materials, or they are destroyed.
Creator
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Inside Books Project
Source
Inside Books Project
Publisher
Inside Books Project Archive
Rights
Public domain
Format
carbon copies
Language
English
Spanish
Type
text
administrative regulations
Coverage
United States -- Texas
Collection Items
Denial form for "Drawing: A Contemporary Approach" by Teel Sale and Claudia Betti
![Denial form for "Drawing: A Contemporary Approach" by Teel Sale and Claudia Betti](https://ibparchive.texasafterviolence.org/files/square_thumbnails/0c548b0b579064979925d82a6cf0e544.jpg "Denial form for "Drawing: A Contemporary Approach" by Teel Sale and Claudia Betti")
Denial form for "Drawing: A Contemporary Approach" by Teel Sale and Claudia Betti due to "sexually explicit images."
Denial form for "Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Graphic Adaptation" by Seymour Chwast
![Denial form for "Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Graphic Adaptation" by Seymour Chwast](https://ibparchive.texasafterviolence.org/files/square_thumbnails/b8411417033e5b3489d0739c8137fea2.jpg "Denial form for "Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Graphic Adaptation" by Seymour Chwast")
Denial form for "Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Graphic Adaptation" by Seymour Chwast due to "sexually explicit images." Patron requested appeal.
Denial form for "Dessa Rose" by Sherley A Williams
![Denial form for "Dessa Rose" by Sherley A Williams](https://ibparchive.texasafterviolence.org/files/square_thumbnails/06816f1eeade628ca5ae90a5ccfdf67f.jpg "Denial form for "Dessa Rose" by Sherley A Williams")
Denial form for "Dessa Rose" by Sherley A Williams because "(d) a specific determination has been made that the publication is detrimental to offender's rehabilitation, because it would encourage deviant criminal sexual behavior"
Mail-room…
Mail-room…
Denial form for "The Best of the Group of Seven" by Joan Murray
![Denial form for "The Best of the Group of Seven" by Joan Murray](https://ibparchive.texasafterviolence.org/files/square_thumbnails/aebb267da5d1ec9af7742551ac2049c3.jpg "Denial form for "The Best of the Group of Seven" by Joan Murray")
Denial form for "The Best of the Group of Seven" by Joan Murray because it "contains sexually explicit images."
Denial form for "Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag" by Armando Valladares
![Denial form for "Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag" by Armando Valladares](https://ibparchive.texasafterviolence.org/files/square_thumbnails/d012dd8fff43fd73c351fb87b8da4533.jpg "Denial form for "Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag" by Armando Valladares")
TDCJ denial form for "Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag," by Armando Valladares.
"(d) a specific determination has been made that the publication is detrimental to offender's rehabilitation, because it would encourage deviant…
"(d) a specific determination has been made that the publication is detrimental to offender's rehabilitation, because it would encourage deviant…
Denial form for "Coming of Age in Mississippi" by Anne Moody
![Denial form for "Coming of Age in Mississippi" by Anne Moody](https://ibparchive.texasafterviolence.org/files/square_thumbnails/331283b8317e2c89a43b3ad1ed8916d7.jpg "Denial form for "Coming of Age in Mississippi" by Anne Moody")
TDCJ denial form for "Coming of Age in Mississippi" by Anne Moody. (d) a specific determination has been made that the publication is detrimental to offender's rehabilitation, because it would encourage deviant criminal sexual behavior.
Mail-room…
Mail-room…
Denial form for "City of Exiles" by Alec Nevala-Lee
![Denial form for "City of Exiles" by Alec Nevala-Lee](https://ibparchive.texasafterviolence.org/files/square_thumbnails/f8c69b74b8a17c4a38dbaac6a287eccb.jpg "Denial form for "City of Exiles" by Alec Nevala-Lee")
TDCJ censorship form on the grounds that "(c) It contains material that a reasonable person would constitute as written solely for the purpose of communicating information designed to achieve the breakdown of prisons through offender disruption such…
Denial form for "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave," by Frederick Douglass
![Denial form for "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave," by Frederick Douglass](https://ibparchive.texasafterviolence.org/files/square_thumbnails/1201dfc25ae2faf7cd0e5f6e8ac6cf75.jpg "Denial form for "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave," by Frederick Douglass")
TDCJ censorship form on the grounds that "(c) It contains material that a reasonable person would constitute as written solely for the purpose of communicating information designed to achieve the breakdown of prisons through offender disruption such…
Denial form for "Exclusive" by Yasmin Shiraz
![Denial form for "Exclusive" by Yasmin Shiraz](https://ibparchive.texasafterviolence.org/files/square_thumbnails/f5480a8fc11c22f8e771e123a892fe86.jpg "Denial form for "Exclusive" by Yasmin Shiraz")
TDCJ denial form for "Exclusive" by Yasmin Shiraz.
(d) A specific determination has been made that the publication is detrimental to the offender’s rehabilitation, because it would encourage deviant criminal sexual behavior
Mail-room remarks-…
(d) A specific determination has been made that the publication is detrimental to the offender’s rehabilitation, because it would encourage deviant criminal sexual behavior
Mail-room remarks-…
Denial form for "A Perfect Evil (P)"
![Denial form for "A Perfect Evil (P)"](https://ibparchive.texasafterviolence.org/files/square_thumbnails/a516c2de393531484d4591a55f01dada.jpg "Denial form for "A Perfect Evil (P)"")
TDCJ denial form for "A Perfect Evil (P)"
(d) A specific determination has been made that the publication is detrimental to the offender’s rehabilitation, because it would encourage deviant criminal sexual behavior
Mail-room remarks- "reason D.…
(d) A specific determination has been made that the publication is detrimental to the offender’s rehabilitation, because it would encourage deviant criminal sexual behavior
Mail-room remarks- "reason D.…
Denial form for "RL's Dream" by Walter Mosley
![Denial form for "RL's Dream" by Walter Mosley](https://ibparchive.texasafterviolence.org/files/square_thumbnails/6c4c462bb075a7d02f167919c0e63db0.jpg "Denial form for "RL's Dream" by Walter Mosley")
TDCJ denial for "RL's Dream" by Walter Mosley.
(c) It contains material that a reasonable person would constitute as written solely for the purpose of communicating information designed to achieve the breakdown of prisons through offender…
(c) It contains material that a reasonable person would constitute as written solely for the purpose of communicating information designed to achieve the breakdown of prisons through offender…
Denial form for "Steal This Computer Book" by Wallace Wang
![Denial form for "Steal This Computer Book" by Wallace Wang](https://ibparchive.texasafterviolence.org/files/square_thumbnails/b644c4beaf563859334ff05414530210.jpg "Denial form for "Steal This Computer Book" by Wallace Wang")
TDCJ denial form for "Steal This Computer Book" by Wallace Wang.
(d) A specific determination has been made that the publication is detrimental to the offender’s rehabilitation, because it would encourage deviant criminal sexual behavior
Mail-room…
(d) A specific determination has been made that the publication is detrimental to the offender’s rehabilitation, because it would encourage deviant criminal sexual behavior
Mail-room…
Denial form for "Child of Darkness" by V.C. Andrews
![Denial form for "Child of Darkness" by V.C. Andrews](https://ibparchive.texasafterviolence.org/files/square_thumbnails/435817c4849d78431a344a161344dd56.jpg "Denial form for "Child of Darkness" by V.C. Andrews")
TDCJ denial form for "Child of Darkness" by V.C. Andrews.
(d) A specific determination has been made that the publication is detrimental to the offender’s rehabilitation, because it would encourage deviant criminal sexual behavior
Mail-room…
(d) A specific determination has been made that the publication is detrimental to the offender’s rehabilitation, because it would encourage deviant criminal sexual behavior
Mail-room…
Denial form for "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Steig Larsson
![Denial form for "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Steig Larsson](https://ibparchive.texasafterviolence.org/files/square_thumbnails/e412cf0c7f00b85f4a9ba028519b36d3.jpg "Denial form for "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Steig Larsson")
TDCJ denial form for "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Steig Larsson.
(d) A specific determination has been made that the publication is detrimental to the offender’s rehabilitation, because it would encourage deviant criminal sexual…
(d) A specific determination has been made that the publication is detrimental to the offender’s rehabilitation, because it would encourage deviant criminal sexual…
Denial form for "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Steig Larsson
![Denial form for "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Steig Larsson](https://ibparchive.texasafterviolence.org/files/square_thumbnails/d90f8dd1151bc51cb5794f686e0a1863.jpg "Denial form for "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Steig Larsson")
TDCJ denial form for "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Steig Larsson.
(d) A specific determination has been made that the publication is detrimental to the offender’s rehabilitation, because it would encourage deviant criminal sexual…
(d) A specific determination has been made that the publication is detrimental to the offender’s rehabilitation, because it would encourage deviant criminal sexual…
Denial form for "Cultural Resistance Reader" by Stephen Duncombe
TDCJ denial form for "Cultural Resistance Reader" by Stephen Duncombe.
(c) contains material that a reasonable person would construe as written solely for the purpose of communicating information to achieve the breakdown of prisons through offender…
(c) contains material that a reasonable person would construe as written solely for the purpose of communicating information to achieve the breakdown of prisons through offender…
Denial form for "The Laws of our Fathers" by Scott Turow
![Denial form for "The Laws of our Fathers" by Scott Turow](https://ibparchive.texasafterviolence.org/files/square_thumbnails/8d2473baf4d3f4fa7771fbd0ffbc483b.jpg "Denial form for "The Laws of our Fathers" by Scott Turow")
TDCJ denial form for "The Laws of our Fathers" by Scott Turow.
(e) It contains material on the setting up and operation of criminal schemes or how to avoid detection of criminal schemes by lawful authorities charged with the responsibility for…
(e) It contains material on the setting up and operation of criminal schemes or how to avoid detection of criminal schemes by lawful authorities charged with the responsibility for…
Denial form for "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
![Denial form for "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen](https://ibparchive.texasafterviolence.org/files/square_thumbnails/cbe453ef6ea72cc08cbbb1ad26cc099d.jpg "Denial form for "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen")
TDCJ denial form for "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen.
(f) It contains sexually explicit images.
Mail-room remarks- "Page 142 Sexually Explicit Image"
(f) It contains sexually explicit images.
Mail-room remarks- "Page 142 Sexually Explicit Image"
Denial form for "Experiencing Architecture" by Steen Eiler Rasmussen
![Denial form for "Experiencing Architecture" by Steen Eiler Rasmussen](https://ibparchive.texasafterviolence.org/files/square_thumbnails/afc3d5aee78205ed39b2e90348d75eab.jpg "Denial form for "Experiencing Architecture" by Steen Eiler Rasmussen")
TDCJ Denial form for "Experiencing Architecture" by Steen Eiler Rasmussen
(f) It contains sexually explicit images.
Mail-room remarks- "Pages 115 + 148 contain sexually explicit images"
(f) It contains sexually explicit images.
Mail-room remarks- "Pages 115 + 148 contain sexually explicit images"
Denial form for "The Ballad of John and Yoko" by The Editors of Rolling Stone
![Denial form for "The Ballad of John and Yoko" by The Editors of Rolling Stone](https://ibparchive.texasafterviolence.org/files/square_thumbnails/43225cd877463991f641038704fac00c.jpg "Denial form for "The Ballad of John and Yoko" by The Editors of Rolling Stone")
Publication review/denial notification form for "The Ballad of John and Yoko" by The Editors of Rolling Stone.
(f) It contains sexually explicit images.
Mail-room remarks- "pg 34 contains a sexually explicit image"
(f) It contains sexually explicit images.
Mail-room remarks- "pg 34 contains a sexually explicit image"