The Color Purple is banned in Texas prisons; Hitlers Mein Kampf is not

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RACHEL LEAH at Salon

https://www.salon.com/2017/12/04/the-color-purple-is-banned-in-texas-prisons-hitlers-mein-kampf-is-not/

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Take the ban of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Color Purple," which isn't welcome in the prison system because of its portrayal of rape, or a collection of Shakespeare's sonnets which inmates won't have access to because it contains highly stylized nude images of children. Adolf Hitler’s anti-Semitic, fascist polemic "Mein Kampf" and two books by former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke, however, are permitted.

According to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's policies, books can be banned if they contain information about building weapons, explosives or drugs or developing criminal schemes. Graphic scenes of illegal sex acts like rape or incest, or sexually explicit images will also earn a ban as will "material that a reasonable person would construe as written solely for the purpose of communicating information designed to achieve the breakdown of prisons through offender disruption." Further books whose physical bindings may give inmates the opportunity to conceal contraband are not allowed.


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Ban them all including Mein Kampf.

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1. It's Texas

Until we turn it blue, you can expect them to do stupid, anti-American stuff like that.