Tracking Prison Censorship in the United States

Report a New Censorship Incident

Click for more	STATE	DATE	TYPE	TITLE	REASON GIVEN	FACILITY	DIRECT LINK
	[AZ]	04/02/2010	magazine	MIM Theory 2/3: Revolutionary Feminism	Pending review, may be obscene or threat to security. [Download Documentation]	Arizona State Prison Complex Central Unit
Follow Up Correspondence 06/25/2010 Publication Review Result - denied per policy # 1.1.1 "Riots/Work Stoppages/Resistance" Download Documentation 06/28/2010 Prisoner files appeal Download Documentation 07/02/2010 Receipts from staff for prisoner's appeal Download Documentation 08/11/2010 Appeal denied on second review, exhaustion of administrative remedy Download Documentation
	[CO]	08/11/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 15 (July 2010)	Pages 4-5 "contain information on organizing food and hunger strikes and encourages violence and physical force to change conditions in a prison.	US Penitentiary MAX
	[CA]	08/10/2010	letter	MIM Intro	"need prison ID# to identify" (ID# clearly on envelope and likely correct)	Pelican Bay State Prison
	[CA]	08/10/2010	letter	MIM Intro	"need prison ID# to identify" (ID# clearly on envelope and likely correct)	Pelican Bay State Prison
	[CA]	08/10/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 15 (July 2010)	none	United States Penitentiary Atwater
	[CA]	08/10/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 14 (May 2010)	none	California State Prison, Sacramento
	[CA]	08/10/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 14 (May 2010)	none	California State Prison, Sacramento
	[CA]	08/10/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 14 (May 2010)	none	California State Prison, Sacramento
	[NM]	08/10/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 15 (July 2010)	Refused	Federal Correctional Institution La Tuna
	[CA]	08/10/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 11 (Nov 2009)	"need prison ID# to identify" (ID# clearly on envelope and likely correct)	Pelican Bay State Prison
	[CA]	08/10/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 12 (Jan 2010)	"need prison ID# to identify" (ID# clearly on envelope and likely correct)	Pelican Bay State Prison
	[NY]	08/10/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 15 (July 2010)	unknown	Southport Correctional Facility
	[IL]	08/09/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 15 (July 2010)	Contains articles authored by other inmates, which advocates noncompliant behaviot which threatens security. [Download Documentation]	US Penitentiary Marion
	[CA]	08/05/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 15 (July 2010)	unknown - no notice given	California State Prison, Corcoran
	[VA]	06/30/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 14 (May 2010)	Violates Operating Procedure 803.2 [Download Documentation]	Nottoway Correctional Center
Follow Up Correspondence 06/30/2010 Prisoner requests explanation for censorship Download Documentation 07/01/2010 Mailroom staff say they forwarded publication to Publication Review Committee Show Text see 06/30/2010 documentation for "Prisoner requests explanation for censorship" 07/20/2010 Letter from PRC to MIM Distributors saying entire publication violates OP 803.2 #7 Download Documentation 07/25/2010 Prisoner files Informal Complaint requesting status of Publication Review Committee decision Download Documentation 07/27/2010 Mailroom Assistant replies to Informal Complaint saying they do not know status of decision Show Text see 07/25/2010 documentation 08/04/2010 PRC says publication violates Operating Procedure 803.2 #7 "promotes or advocates violence" Download Documentation
	[NC]	08/03/2010	letter	personalized	encourages use of a pseudonym	Scotland Correctional Institution
	[MO]	02/23/2010	magazine	MIM Theory 2/3: Revolutionary Feminism	"used" (it was not)	Crossroads Correctional Center
Follow Up Correspondence 08/03/2010 prisoner reported magazine was destroyed, violating MODOC policy
	[MI]	07/31/2010	magazine	MIM Theory 10: Labor Aristocracy	none This was overturned	Pine River Correctional Facility
Follow Up Correspondence 08/03/2010 Publication allowed after hearing Show Text Despite its initial rejection, I did get the MIM Theory 10 after a hearing held at this prison. As I suspected I would, being that we are in Detroit, a community where everyone is just a single slip-up from these prisons,
	[NY]	08/02/2010	letter	study group mailing	Inmates are not permitted to receive or send third party mail. [Download Documentation]	Southport Correctional Facility
	[CA]	08/01/2010	letter	personalized	moved (returned 8 months after sent)	Pelican Bay State Prison
	[CA]	08/01/2010	letter	2nd letter form	none	California State Prison, Sacramento
	[CA]	08/01/2010	letter	MIM Intro	none	California State Prison, Sacramento
	[CA]	08/01/2010	letter	MIM Intro	none	California State Prison, Sacramento
	[AZ]	08/01/2010	letter	MIM Intro	Prohibited Correspondence because "books, publications, music must come from the publisher or bookstore, pages torn from books, i.e. puzzles are not allowed" [Download Documentation]	Arizona State Prison Complex Douglas Mohave Unit
	[AL]	08/01/2010	letter	MIM Intro	Refused	Federal Correctional Institution Talladega
	[CA]	08/01/2010	letter	MIM Intro	"need prison ID# to identify" (ID# clearly on envelope and likely correct)	Pelican Bay State Prison
	[FL]	08/01/2010	letter	personalized	none	Florida State Prison
	[FL]	08/01/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 14 (May 2010)	Refused	Reception and Medical Center
	[CA]	08/01/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 14 (May 2010)	none	California State Prison, Sacramento
	[CA]	08/01/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 12 (Jan 2010)	moved (returned 8 months after sent)	Pelican Bay State Prison
	[PA]	08/01/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 14 (May 2010)	none	State Correctional Institution Smithfield
	[CA]	08/01/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 15 (July 2010)	unknown	California State Prison, Los Angeles County
	[CA]	08/01/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 15 (July 2010)	none	Kern Valley State Prison
	[MI]	08/01/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 9 (July 2009)	none	Mound Correctional Facility
	[TX]	08/01/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 15 (July 2010)	unknown	Bill Clements Unit
	[TX]	08/01/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 15 (July 2010)	none	Allred Unit
	[IN]	08/01/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 15 (July 2010)	none	Pendleton Correctional Facility
	[AR]	08/01/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 15 (July 2010)	Illegal discrimation, violence, verbal or sexual abuse or inflammatory attitudes toward any racial, sexual, age, handicapped or individuals or group(s), as well as describing or depicting the violation of any other institutional or departmental policies.	Varner Supermax
	[AL]	08/01/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 15 (July 2010)	none	Federal Correctional Institution Talladega
	[PA]	08/01/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 15 (July 2010)	none	State Correctional Institution Mahanoy
	[PA]	08/01/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 15 (July 2010)	none	State Correctional Institution Somerset
	[NC]	08/01/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 15 (July 2010)	none	Scotland Correctional Institution
	[FL]	08/01/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 15 (July 2010)	none	Florida State Prison
	[NE]	08/01/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 15 (July 2010)	none	Tecumseh State Correctional Institution
	[IL]	08/01/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 15 (July 2010)	in review	Hill Correctional Center
	[AR]	08/01/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 15 (July 2010)	none	Varner Supermax
	[CA]	08/01/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 15 (July 2010)	no notification given	Wasco State Prison
	[NY]	08/01/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 15 (July 2010)	no notification given (other letters in same envelope were delivered to prisoner)	Cayuga Correctional Facility
	[AR]	06/01/2010	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 14 (May 2010)	Illegal discrimination, violence, verbal or sexual abuse or inflammatory attitudes toward any racial, sexual, age, handicapped or individuals or group(s), as well as describing or depicting violation of any other institutional or departmental policies. [Download Documentation]	Varner Supermax
Follow Up Correspondence 07/20/2010 Prisoner appeals censorship Download Documentation 07/30/2010 Prisoner files emergency appeal Download Documentation
	[UT]	07/28/2010	magazine	Inside Dharma	Intensive management inmates are not allowed publications/subscriptions [Download Documentation]	Utah State Prison

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