![]() Prison officials said they feared inmates would learn an "obscure language" and organize against staff. Michigan has also banned dictionaries in Spanish and Swahili under claims that the books' contents are a threat to the state's penitentiaries. Michigan bans Dungeons and Dragons books," she said, referring to the famous tabletop fantasy roleplaying game. ![]() ![]() Her book, Corrections in Ink: A Memoir details her time behind bars and her remarkable resurgence after the fact. And the ones chosen often don't make a ton of sense, Blakinger said. Keri Blakinger was not poor, was highly educated and white, yet found herself in the same spot and was treated in the same cold and dehumanized fashion. Other states, like Florida, Texas, Michigan and California, have lists with thousands of titles on them. Some states have very small lists, with only a few hundred titles. "How big those lists are and what sorts of materials they include varies quite a bit," she said. Others have a set list of forbidden books. She's found that some state prisons ban books on a case-by-case basis. Keri Blakinger is an investigative reporter based in Texas, covering criminal justice and injustice for The Marshall Project. ![]() While Keri Blakinger's book is banned in Florida, some states don't explicitly ban extremist texts like Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.Ĭoincidentally, as part of Blakinger's work with The Marshall Project, she's recently submitted records requests for state-level prisons' banned book lists. ![]()
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