Every time they try to do this, part of the effects are to ban prisoners from receiving books. If you can't receive physical mail... how do you get books to rea

Every time they try to do this, part of the effects are to ban prisoners from receiving books. If you can't receive physical mail... how do you get books to read? Once they remember this is a thing (and that the pesky first ammendment even for prisoners probably means they can't just ban all reading material), they say that prisoners have to read only "e-reader" books from approved vendors at inflated prices and limited selection -- or if they are lucky, they can still get physical books from only approved vendors at inflated prices and limited selection. (the latter which prisons are always trying to do even before/without limiting paper mail too). Not being able to receive mail is bad enough, but the consequences on receiving books double it down. One of the few avenues to self-improvement, education, or even just recreation prisoners have. The way we approach prisons are insane. We take people who have done something from their worst selves, and put them in an environment which seems almost designed to force them to continue to practice being their worst selves, with no other paths available.