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Censorship
2023

Censorship
Harkleroad, JamesFlorida
C e nsor ship
August 2, 2021

C e nsor ship

 Matthew Feeney 22 Lines C e nsor ship [letters "C" and "nsor" struck through] As an incarcerated writer in order to correspond with my writing mentor I have to work through our prison’s ********* department....
Feeney, Matthew D.Minnesota
Buddhist magazines treated like porno
February 7, 2021

Buddhist magazines treated like porno

 2/7/2021 Buddhist Magazines treated like Porno I have been the Jameson Buddhist Group facilitator for about 5 years now and I cannot believe that the Buddhist magazines titled 'Lion's Roar', January and March 2021 issues...
Bell, ShaneSouth Dakota
Prison playwrights
October 3, 2019

Prison playwrights

 Waupun Correctional Institution Tom Kropp [ID] Po box 351 Waupun, WI 53963 Prison Playwrights By Tom Kropp I discovered a magazine called Writer's Digest while in prison. It intrigued me and I subscribed. That's how...
Kropp, TomWisconsin
AK DOC has and currently engages
September 18, 2019

AK DOC has and currently engages

 1 January 2019 AK DOC has and currently engages in a policy and practice that fails to notify senders of mail that has been censored (denied), which is also a procedural due process violation to...
AkmountainsAlaska
Correctional license to violate law
March 19, 2019

Correctional license to violate law

 Correctional License to Violate Law There are two things I never get tired of writing about! Those two things are the tenacious proclivity of all upper echelon correctional officials to retaliate against both prisoners and...
Crowell, RickMichigan
Exhibit F: Political Work "lost, delayed and/or destroyed"
February 13, 2018

Exhibit F: Political Work "lost, delayed and/or destroyed"
Covelli, Robert FrankIllinois
Second mailing of news flash on 8-28-2017
January 9, 2018

Second mailing of news flash on 8-28-2017
Covelli, Robert FrankIllinois
Censorship in Michigan prisons
October 23, 2016

Censorship in Michigan prisons

 Censorship In Michigan Prisons By: Lacino Hamilton Today, another book was rejected. The fifth time in the past two weeks this has happened. All because the book wasn't sent from an "approved vendor." To the...
Hamilton, LacinoNot Available
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If you are working on an APWA-related project, please let us know how you plan to utilize the Archive. We hope to share information about your work with our readers and, whenever possible, with relevant APWA authors.

APWA is an open access archive. We encourage use of the writings for research, course planning, and projects engaged in examination of the criminal legal system. Reproduction of essays in their entirety infringes on author copyright without their explicit consent from the writers. Please contact us if you plan to reproduce entire essays; we will do our best to put you in contact with the authors for consent, and their compensation for any project that is profit making.

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