Prison Book Censorship Bars Liberation
In 2018, the list of banned books in North Carolina prisons included Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, and Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. It’s deeply hypocritical for a nation that proclaims itself a bastion of freedom to deny people an opportunity to participate in the marketplace of ideas and read books b…
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