Arizona Prisons Lift Ban On Book About Mass Incarceration
The book's author is grateful that pressure on corrections officials persuaded them to rethink the ban, but it did not end his concerns over access to books among prisoners across the country.
Corrections officials in Arizona are now allowing inmates to read a book criticizing the U.S. criminal justice system after initially pulling it from prisons over "unauthorized content," a state corrections official tells NPR.
An uproar over the ban of including threats of a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union, prompted Arizona prison officials to
