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."