Amy Schumer’s memoir “The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo” was flagged by Florida officials for both sexual content and security concernsTens of thousands of books are being banned or restricted by U.S. prisons, according to a new report from PEN America. The list includes everything from self-help books to an Elmore Leonard novel.
Marquis said that the most common official reasons for bans are security and sexual content, terms that can apply to a very wide range of titles. Michigan's “restricted” list includes Leonard's thriller “Cuba Libre,” set right before the 1898 Spanish-American War, and Frederick Forsyth's “The Day of the Jackal,” about a professional assassin's attempt to murder French President Charles de Gaulle in the 1960s.
“It’s a form of control. It’s the ultimate form of power of manipulation," Greene said in a statement issued through PEN. "Prison book programs have mostly tried to raise awareness locally when prisons implement new censorship restrictions for communities they serve," the report reads. “But these programs are largely run by volunteers and struggle to keep up with the demand for books even absent censorship. The upshot is that there have been few nationwide efforts to analyze trends in carceral censorship.”
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