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Watercolor painting submitted as part of a series of reflections on creative expression, Autism awareness, mental health, coping, and trauma.

Creator description: "Please put all of [my works] on-line. One never knows what single phrase or piece…

Pen drawing of two transfemme people surrounded by books labeled "Happiness and Hope," L.G.B.T.Q," and "Thanks to a Friend." The draiwng also features recreational drugs, gender-affirming medication, a letter addressed to the artist, "C.C.", from the…

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 due to "sexually explicit images." Patron requested appeal.

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"

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Denial form for "The Best of the Group of Seven" by Joan Murray because it "contains sexually explicit images."

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…

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.

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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…

A letter from Lily Archuleta to Texas After Violence Project and the Inside Books Project Archive. Lily describes her experience contracting Covid-19 in a Texas prison, dealing with isolation during her illness, and lack of of visitation with her…

"Poem to show that (JUSTICE IS A LIE) Because Governments, Polices, Politician use the law as a [?] to scheme and pervent the law and hide behind the law the same law you suppose to uphold you are caught breaking the same laws?"

"This is a informative essay/Public Service Announcement/cry for help regard the issues of COVID era Polunsky Unit and how to fix the trapped cooped up in the cell prolem."

"Testimony: COVID-19 response on Wynne Unit"

"I would like people to know what we are going through during a pandemic while incarcerated."

"To many times we are FORCED to Act innappropriatly to get a Ear to Listen and the Medicol and few officers would Rather Lie than Really Help

"Just wanted to tell you how life is in here, how I cope and make it through each day. How to stay busy, and think, and be healthy."

Installation of censorship documents and art at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas. Installed as part of the Texas Advocates for Justice #kNOwMORE2017 event, a state-wide gathering of individuals whose lived experiences include incarceration,…

Photographs of an exhibit featuring IBP Archive materials

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…

Essay commemorating the Attica prison uprising of September 9 - 13, 1971.

Alvaro invites contact from supporters. To find his current address, please visit https://offender.tdcj.texas.gov/OffenderSearch/start and enter in his name and TDCJ number.…