Banning Books Behind Bars

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 10, 2018

Harvey Murphy, community organizer on the #CLOSErikers Campaign and Seth Pollack, an organizer at Books Through Bars, talk about a new pilot program in certain New York State prisons which is severely restricting the books available to inmates.

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