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Writing on the Prison Wall: How Prisons Suppress Prison Journalism
Loaded on Feb. 1, 2024
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2024, page 27
Filed under:
Retaliation for Media Contact,
Prisoner Media,
Censorship,
Articles About PLN.
Location:
United States of America.
On June 15, 2023, Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) published a report on suppression of prison journalism from the inside. The bottom line? Practicing journalism while imprisoned in most states is “extremely difficult and sometimes risky.”
News reporting by prisoners dates back to the 1800s. Until the 1990s, dozens of papers ...
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