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We just received the banned books list from KDOC & it's unbelievable. Kansas has fewer than 10,000 prisoners, yet more than 7,000 books are banned for them, from "A Clockwork Orange" to "Are Prisons Obsolete?"

RT with the most absurd book you find! bookstoprisoners.net/wp-content/upl…
Some books banned for Kansas prisoners:

Cutting for Stone (@cuttingforstone)
The Pursuit of Happyness (@CEOofHappYness)
The Lovely Bones (AGAIN! Just like we found in New Hampshire @BookRiot)
Pretty much everything by @chuckpalahniuk
So many books by Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself)
More political/prison books banned for Kansas prisoners (hey, @PENamerican!):

The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Notes on Anarchism (@noamchomskyT)
Prison Legal News and Criminal Legal News (@prisonlegalnews)
Locked Up and other classic anarchism texts
Just Mercy (@eji_org)
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