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Denial form for “Against All Hope” by Armando Valladares. Banned because "(d) A specific determination has been made that the publication is detrimental to offenders' rehabilitation, because it would encourage deviant criminal sexual behavior".…

Denial Form for “Introduction to Sociology” by Anthony Giddens. Banned because “(f) It contains sexually explicit images". Mail-room remarks: "pg. 153 contains sexually explicit images".

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 “Witchcraze” by Anne Barstow. Banned because "(f) It contains sexually explicit images". Mail-room remarks: "reason f: backcover contains sexually explicit images" .

TDCJ denial form for "Meridian" by Alice Walker.
(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 remarks: "sex with a…

Denial form for “Exiles” by Alex Nevada-Lee. Banned because “(c) It contains material that a reasonable person would construe as written solely for the purpose of communicating information designed to achieve the breakdown of prisons through offender…

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"

Mail-room…

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 "Inside Books Project Newsletter Summer 2016"
(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…

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…

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,…

These documents detail a series of communications between an incarcerated trans woman, Juanita,, the Transgender Pride Initiative (TPI) President Nell Gaither, and the PREA Ombudsman Lynne Sharp. TPI assisted Juanita in gaining access to the full…

"Covid-19: A prisoner's perspective"

"I wrote this while under medical lockdown due to the corona-virus epidemic after hearing the struggles many people 'outside the walls' were having with the whole being quarantined in their houses. I felt the world got a small idea of what it's like…

"Testimony: COVID-19 response on Wynne Unit"

"Life experiences as a tortured human in prolong isolation/ AdSeg/Restricted Housing/Sheltered Housing- all the same with different names."

Poem from Roger Farrar that was included with a letter thanking IBP for the books.

Roger requested his address is shared for any potential pen-pals or users interested in contacting him. If you are interested, please review these expectations and…

Letter thanking IBP for the package of free books, discussion of the archive. Came with poem submission.

Roger requested his address is shared for any potential pen-pals or users interested in contacting him. If you are interested, please review…

"A sound description of my experience with COVID-19 and K-2 while incarcerated"