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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…

TDCJ denial form for "The Only Good Lawyer" by Jeremiah Healy.
(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…

TDCJ denial form for "Prostate Guide for Men and Women," by Patrick Walsh [sic]
(f) contains sexually explicit images

Reasons F; "pages 38, 52 + 126 contains Sexually Explicit Images"

TDCJ denial form for "The Survivors Club" by Lisa Gardner.
(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…

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

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" .

"My perspective and experience in prison during the pandemic"

Essay and letter from Brian Fuller on PTSD, Autism, Mental Illness, and Prison Corruption

Photographs of an exhibit featuring IBP Archive materials

"True story of my life's consequences."

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,…

"To work in a kitchen in prison is a worst nightmare."

"Note: Ingles is not my first language, so you'll find a bunch of mistakes but I would appreciate is someone could correct my work or just put it out like that."

Letter on conditions at Ferguson Unit and essay, "Healing Session by Medicine Grizzlybear Lake and Tea Donohue Lake to men in Fairbanks, Alaska, Correctional Facility"

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…

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…

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…

"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…

"How we are being oppressed daily in Prison!"