Prison Banned Books Week: Being in Jail Shouldn't Mean Having Nothing to Read
Briefly

"We might as well be rummaging the dusty old leftovers in some thrift store or back alley dumpster." This quote underscores the desultory state of available literature for incarcerated individuals.
Many companies that offer tablets advertise libraries of several thousand books, but a huge proportion of these books are public domain texts taken directly from Project Gutenberg.
Despite the advertising claims, what these tablet programs offer is merely a limited selection, often consisting of irrelevant and outdated texts, lacking real literary value.
New data reveals that, while prisons have tablets, the material available may not be accessible to many incarcerated individuals, further complicating their already restricted reading options.
Read at Electronic Frontier Foundation
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