If this was the only article I read about this subject. I would agree with your comments, unfortunately this is another example of a one sided news article. I

If this was the only article I read about this subject. I would agree with your comments, unfortunately this is another example of a one sided news article. I was so shocked by this story I looked into it further and it turns out that certain inmates and "donators" were using the book donation system to smuggle books who's pages were infused with drugs into the prisons. Not only that, this article makes it sound like the prisoners have no access to books at all, which is very misleading as all of the correction facilities have libraries and are going to increase funding to improving them in the wake of this new policy. I would agree that it seems absurd to force inmates to purchase an expensive e-reader and this also may be a form of censorship but I'm not sure I disagree with censorship in prisons. You lose many other rights when you are incarcerated and not being able to read everything you want seems very small on the list.