Joseph KaminskiSep 20, 2018
Clayton Dewey

It is now illegal in Pennsylvania to donate a book to someone incarcerated.

Instead, books must be purchased as ebooks through prison profiteer GTL or ordered through the DOC

This is an attack on gift economies and free speech/culture while expanding the surveillance capitalist, carceral state.

http://www2.philly.com/philly/news/books-through-bars-pennsylvania-prisons-k2-security-john-wetzel-20180913.html

Pa. prison books and mail policies draw protests, petitions, and possible legal challenges

Critics see the Department of Corrections rules as part of a nationwide "war on books."

Sep 20, 2018 at 5:48pmWeb
Show threadStill your Cat DadSep 20, 2018
@clayton
Yep its pretty fucked. Im just.waiting on them to sell white supremacy books
Show threadjs290Sep 20, 2018
@clayton Mmm.... that's some good fascism
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Show threadCBSep 20, 2018
@clayton absolute trash. I used to work in bookstores and ship books to inmates for customers. They're often the highlight of a person's month or year and this is utterly barbaric.
Show threadkyzhSep 20, 2018
@clayton I would have boosted that if it had a CW.
Great article atill
Show threadClayton DeweySep 21, 2018
@kyzh ah yeah sorry I should have CW'd it.
Show threadFeohSep 20, 2018
@clayton Yeah this shit is *wrong* on so many levels. I hope philly folks are writing letters to their congress-critters.
Show threadHernanLGSep 20, 2018
@clayton Wow, did your legislators even bother giving a reason, or are they explicitly corrupt?
Show threadKermodeSep 20, 2018
@clayton I'm sorry. Do you guys even realize how fucked up your society is behaving?