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
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What do Educational Gag Orders look like in practice?
@jeremycyoung, Senior Manager of PEN America’s Free Expression and Education program and the lead author of our new #AmericasCensoredClassrooms report, analyzes the impact of Executive Order 2022-2 in South Dakota...