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NJ Professor asks: Why were books banned at state prisons?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Millburn professor asks : Why were books banned at state prisons? by Patricia C. Kelley/Independent Press Monday August 24, 2009, 6:25 PM (Editor of "Inside Out: Voices from New Jersey State Prison" Kal Wagenheim wants to know where his self-published books are, and why they were taken from the book's authors.) MILLBURN, N.J. -- Kal Wagenheim wants to know where his books are, and why they were taken from the 43 New Jersey State Prison inmates who wrote the poems and essays contained in the volume. Wagenheim -- a semi-retired journalist, author, professor and translator -- earlier this year published "Inside Out: Voices from New Jersey State Prison," a compilation of the creative works of prison inmates at New Jersey State Prison in Trenton who were his students at a creative writing course he began teaching at the prison in 2001...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 02, 2009 (boomark / email).