Clayton DeweySep 20, 2018

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."

Show threadkyzhSep 20, 2018
@clayton I would have boosted that if it had a CW.
Great article atill
Show threadClayton Dewey
@kyzh ah yeah sorry I should have CW'd it.
Sep 21, 2018 at 4:55pmWeb