Washington State has tried to keep Prison Lega/ News itself out of prisons. First, the Department of Corrections prohibited inmates from receiving nonprofits. PLA sued and won. Next, the state issued a rule that inmates couldn’ t receive publications that were paid out of their trust accounts. PLN managed to get that rule overturned too. Then the prisons adopted a policy of not delivering subscription-renewal notices. PLN took that to court and succeeded in getting the policy reversed. PLN has won similar lawsuits or settlements in Alabama, California, Michigan, Nevada and Oregon. While serving five years in a California prison for growing medical marijuana, Todd McCormick contributed a couple of stories--about his experiences with psilocybin and ketamine--to my anthology, Magic Mushrooms and Other Highs: From Toad Slime to Ecstasy, and when it was published, | immediately sent him a copy. But the warden rejected it “because on pages 259-261, it describes the process of squeezing toads to obtain illicit substances which could be detrimental to the security, good order and discipline of the institution.” This was pure theater of cruelty. Federal correctional facilities do not have a toad problem, and outside accomplices have not been catapulting loads of toads over barbed wire fences to provide the fuel for a HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015286