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Literature Locked Up: How Prison Book Restriction Policies Constitute the Nation’s Largest Book Ban
Literature Locked Up: How Prison Book Restriction Policies Constitute the Nation’s Largest Book Ban details book banning in American prisons. More
Literature Locked Up: A Banned Books Week 2019 Reading List
As part of our "Literature Locked Up" campaign, PEN America presents a reading list of books that have been or are currently banned from prisons. More
As Part of National Banned Books Week, PEN America to Focus on the Right to Read in the Nation’s Prisons
“With all of our societal focus on how to make the criminal justice system more just and less self-defeating, vindicating the right to read in prison is an obvious… More
Banned Books Week 2019
We are proud to collaborate with PEN America partners nationwide in activities to celebrate Banned Books Week 2019. More
DARE: Facebook Said to Be in Talks With Publishers on News Effort
Facebook is in talks with publishers on news effort to license articles on the platform. In an opinion piece in the Atlantic, NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro... More
DARE: Facebook Lets Deepfake Zuckerberg Video Stay on Instagram
A ‘deepfake’ video of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg emerges—and is left up on Instagram—as Congress prepares for its first hearing on the potential... More
DARE: YouTube Bans Neo-Nazi and Holocaust-Denial Videos in Push against Hate Speech
YouTube takes new steps against hate speech on its platform, banning neo-Nazi and Holocaust denial videos. A Pew Center survey seems to indicate that... More
PEN America Urges Illinois Prison Officials to Reverse ‘Troubling’ Decision to Remove 200+ Books in a Prison Library
"The fact that these removed books deal primarily with contemporary racial issues is, unfortunately, not a surprise to us,” said James Tager, Deputy Director of Free Expression Research and… More
Misguided Ban on Used Books in Ohio Prisons Marks Troubling Erosion of the Right to Read
We urge Governor Mike DeWine of Ohio, Director Annette Chambers-Smith of Ohio’s Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, and other state authorities to reverse these policies, and to re-evaluate how… More
Washington State’s Decision to Ban Book Donations to Prisons Misguided and Harmful
"Literature offers a way for people in prison to expand their minds, to retain a sense of connection to the outside community, to pass the time, and to continue… More