Prison Legal News, a nonprofit publisher, is suing the Massachusetts Department of Correction Commissioner over a prison book policy that allows “only approved vendors to send books to prisoners.” The publisher is not on the list and believes the list is unconstitutional. I think prisons ought to have tight controls on inmate reading, even though that could lead to problems like this perhaps or a subtle indoctrination of another kind.
There is a part in the Constitution guaranteeing rights, and it also says, “unless deprived by due process.”
A trial by one’s peers and a judge is that due process.
I guess it sucks to be a prisoner.
I think that’s the point.