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The unexpurgated United States edition was allowed to be imported by McClelland & Stewart in 1959. [51] The book's status as an obscene publication was not resolved until a ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1962. [52] By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept: Elizabeth Smart: 1945 Autobiographical prose poetry
This is an index of lists of banned books, which contain books that have been banned or censored by religious authority or government. By country
An inmate would order a book by putting a slip with their card in a box at the entrance to the dining hall before breakfast, and a librarian took the order to and from their cell. [2] [3] The library, which used a closed-stack paging system, had a collection of 10,000 to 15,000 books, mainly left over from Alcatraz's army days. [4] [2] [3]
It’s not how most contraband gets in anyway,” a prisoner at Chillicothe Correctional Center told The Star. ‘A de facto book ban:’ Missouri bars people from sending books to loved ones in ...
Beginning Oct. 1, we celebrate Banned Books Week, a national effort to galvanize communities across the United States through activities and events at independent bookstores like ours and ...
A viral Feb. 1 tweet that garnered at least 16,100 retweets and 65,800 likes by Australian user @AnthCondon said, "Books banned in Texas include 1984, Maus, and The Handmaid's Tale, but not Mein ...
Between 1740 and 1834 Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, and Virginia all passed anti-literacy laws. [6] South Carolina passed the first law which prohibited teaching slaves to read and write, punishable by a fine of 100 pounds and six months in prison, via an amendment to its 1739 Negro Act.
Commissary list, circa 2013. A prison commissary [1] or canteen [2] is a store within a correctional facility, from which inmates may purchase products such as hygiene items, snacks, writing instruments, etc. Typically inmates are not allowed to possess cash; [3] instead, they make purchases through an account with funds from money contributed by friends, family members, etc., or earned as wages.