Why US prisons dont want prisoners to read
b'In a recent piece for Protean magazine entitled \\u201cThe American Prison System\\u2019s War on Reading,\\u201d Alex Skopic writes, \\u201cAcross the United States, the agencies responsible for mass imprisonment are trying to severely limit incarcerated people\\u2019s access to the written word\\u2014an alarming trend, and one that bears closer examination.\\u201d From outright banning books and letting prison libraries fall into decay to the intrusion of for-profit electronic reading services that inmates have to pay for, the assault on prisoners\\u2019 ability to read books while incarcerated is one of many calculated cruelties that make the US carceral system so inhumane.
In this episode of Rattling the Bars, TRNN Executive Producer Eddie Conway speaks with Skopic about the American prison system\\u2019s war on reading and its deep (and racist) historical roots. Alex Skopic is a freelance writer from Springville, Pennsylvania. His work has appeared in Anthracite Unite, Current Affairs, and Vastarien: A Literary Journal, among other places.
Read the transcript of this interview: https://therealnews.com/why-us-prisons-dont-want-prisoners-to-read
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