* “An inmate couldn’ t get nude pictures of his wife sent to him but he could get a subscription to Playboy. The rationale: A wife deserved more respect.” * “They kept out 7he Anarchists Cookbook. And no kiddie porn, no tales or photos suggesting sex with a guard, no photos showing frontal or rear nudity--not even a wife or friend.” * “The Utah prison system banned Rolling Stone as being an anarchist publication.” * "A Revolution in Kindness is banned from the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola as_ ‘a threat to internal security.’ It was intended for Herman Wallace, who contributed an essay about how he organized a chess tournament on his cellblock as a way of easing tensions and minimizing violence between inmates. Wallace is one of the Angola Three, Black Panthers who have been in solitary confinement for [more than three decades] trying to improve conditions in the ‘bloodiest prison in America’ in the early 1970s.” * “All hardback books forbidden, because the covers could be fashioned into weapons. Educational textbooks--a new rule precludes prisoners on Death Row [including this particular prisoner] or in lockdown from taking correspondence courses--and I’ ve had a couple of books HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015288