Texas Department of Criminal Justice Censorship Records

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Title

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 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 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 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…

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

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…

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…

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 "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-…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Denial form for "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Steig Larsson

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…

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…

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"

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"

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"

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