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The new policy limits book purchases in state-run facilities to two prison-approved vendors and is designed to reduce drug smuggling.
and other supporters, to urge you to immediately rescind Institutional Bulletin # 2018-02.
books, Wash. Post. May 3, 2018.
Maryland should do the same.
limits prisoners to the two vendors, or caps possession of books to 10.
freedom to read includes meaningful choice and access to a broad range of options.
gates.a Clement v. California Dept. of Corrections, 220 F.Supp.2d 1098, 1109-10 (N.D.
want things that you can't have.
In 'Bastards Of The Reagan Era' A Poet Says His Generation Was 'Just Lost', NPR, Dec.
8, 2015, available at https://www.npr.org/2015/12/08/458901392/in-bastards-of-thereagan-era-a-poet-says-his-generation-was-just-lost.
communication applies to both the sender and the intended recipient. Id.(citing Lamont v.
share books, whether to educate, entertain, rehabilitate, or help individuals survive prison.
See, e.g., Thornburgh v. Abbott, 490 U.S. 401, 408 (1989); Montcalm Publishing Co. v.
implicated where they are denied the right to direct their books to prison audiences).
penological interests. Id. at 89a91.
restrictions when they swallow up large swaths of reading material, see, e.g., Ashker v.
for publications other than hardcover books violated First Amendment); Spellman v.
vendor was arbitrary and violation of First Amendment).
unavailable to people in your custody. Nearly none of them will contain suboxone.
involving categorical ban on gift publications).
against making policy based on the rare and exceptional case. Cf. Prison Legal News v.
susceptible to tampering than any other bookseller.
such treatment, even by order of a court.
Any book written by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
prison system can do better.
distrust to the detriment of institutional security.
determining First Amendment violation and availability of reading material).
free books from book clubs, and also has adopted numerous content-based restrictions.
or reduced cost books has real impact on the right to read.
communicate and associate through books a without any alternative at all.
you to immediately rescind IB #2018-02. Please respond by Monday, June 11, 2018.

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