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Censoring Imagination: Why Prisons Ban Fantasy and Science Fiction LitHub

"As PEN America’s new report Reading Between the Bars shows, #books banned in prisons by some states dwarf all other book censorship in school and public libraries. Prison censorship robs those behind bars of everything from exercise and health to art and even yoga, often for reasons that strain credulity"

The strangest category of bans however, are the ones on magical and fantastical literature.

https://lithub.com/censoring-imagination-why-prisons-ban-fantasy-and-science-fiction/