Hey, Prison Legal News, Have you heard the news about FCI Manchester's new plan to only allow people to order from a BOP-chosen book catalog? This is bad news. If prisoner 'circumvents' this policy, they get on restricted mail list for 12 months!

@PGHBookEm NYC Books Through Bars Prison Legal News FedCURE.org FAMM Foundation Appalachian Prison Book Project (APBP) NCWomensPrisonBookProject Nation Inside @BooksPrison @btbphilly The CCR is on bsky (@ccrjustice.org) Paul Wright On Facebook, we suggested contacting FCI Manchester directly to protest the publisher ban (if there's better info available, let us know--this was pulled from the BOP site): Email: [email protected] Phone: 606-598-1900

Check out the The Daily Tar Heel piece on PBC and NCWomensPrisonBookProject! These local nonprofits bring books to incarcerated individuals in North Carolina dailytarheel.com/article/2021/0…

On Oct. 18, a new policy goes into effect that significantly impacts information access for all 28k people incarcerated in the state prison system in NC. NC has contracted out mail processing to a facility in Maryland, monetizing mail and increasing surveillance.

i haven’t seen ppl talking about this on twitter yet, but as of today, NC prisons are no longer allowing incarcerated ppl to receive mail. 🧵

This week, North Carolina prisons stopped allowing incarcerated people to receive physical mail. Instead, they're moving to a digital process, claiming it will reduce the volume of drugs inside prisons. 🧵 A thread on why that's some bullshit 1/10:

Want to make sure any handwritten letters or kids' art doesn't get shredded? That'll cost extra. Want to get the physical mail you sent back? That costs, too. (Slide via Prison Books Collective' Instagram, which you should go follow.) 3/11