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NJ Prisons Reconsiders Book Ban

The New Jersey Department of Corrections reversed its ban on a book about mass incarceration and racial discrimination after the American Civil Liberties Union claimed the prohibition on the book was unconstitutional. So reports National Public Radio.

Inmates at the New Jersey State Prison and Southern State Correctional Facility were prohibited from reading Michelle Alexander's book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The book, which was not banned department-wide, is, in fact, used in a college enrollment program run by the New Jersey Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons Consortium.

Corrections Department officials said in a statement they are reviewing its banned-materials policy "for appropriate revisions."

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