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> used books being donated > Wisconsin prison inmates will begin receiving photocopies of their mail Of their mail So these are unrelated situations. Justify
by magicalist 5y ago
> used books being donated
> Wisconsin prison inmates will begin receiving photocopies of their mail
Of their mail
So these are unrelated situations. Justifying banning books or monetary exploitation with FUD like this is exactly the kind of reasoning that leads to the incarceration rates and policies we have in this country.
- shagie 5y agoThis is an example of paper products being used as a medium for getting drugs into the prison. It happens with used books too. The article that I linked was a specific example of it being used with paper - in that case mail. Used books or books printed from publishers/distributors where it is possible to introduce drugs into it are similarly problematic - which leads to the "only approved vendors." The key is it happens. This particular example isn't about banning reading material - it is about eliminating one of the ways that contraband gets into the prisons. No, it doesn't eliminate all of them. The financial criticisms of some of the contracts between states and vendors is completely justified. Some states are better / more fair than others in this regard.
- magicalist 5y agoDrugs cost money. Donations through charities aren't going to occasionally contain drugs just as a gift to random prisoners. "Some of the criticisms are justified but we have to do something" is the start of the FUD I'm talking about. Do we? Examine the premises instead. As the article notes smuggling by guards is apparently an expected vector when running a prison, and yet this comment section is taking these anecdotes at face value without any evidence of, say, widespread drug smuggling through charities donating books to prisons.
- josephcsible 5y agoPaper was being soaked in drugs. Books and letters are both paper.