Authors and non-profits are frustrated at Ohio's book screening process, saying it's overbroad and unequally enforced.
even though it bans other books glorifying white supremacy and neo-Nazis.that is devoid of pictures, photographs, drawings, diagrams, etc. of [N]azi symbols,” an ODCRODCR did not immediately respond to Gizmodo’s request for comment, but a spokesperson for the department told The Marshall Project these types of guides present “a substantial risk of misuse” and pose a security threat.
Authors and non-profit organizations that donate books to incarcerated people told The Marshall Project these odd, inconsistent rules make it hard for them to know whether or not books ever make it to their intended recipients.Heather Ann Thompson, the author of a book documenting the 1971 prison uprising in the Attica correctional facility, told the Marshall Project the whims of particular prison staff in penitentiaries all across the US can play an outsized role in deciding what books ultimately make it through the screening process even when there are set rules in place.
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