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Please excuse cross-posting. From Jeanie Austin:

This year's Prison Banned Books Week, happening from September 15th-21st, will focus on the rise of tablets inside. While tablets offer unprecedented access to loved ones and outside allies, they have also been used to curtail paper literature. Additionally, content on tablets is highly limited–with titles largely in the public domain, published in the nineteenth century. Accessing the content is costly, despite that, companies acquire these titles for free. We are calling for public library catalogs to be made available on carceral tablets. Library content is for community use and detained and incarcerated people are part of our communities.

If you would like to receive a free, branded display which includes a QR code to prisonbannedbooksweek.org, a complimentary copy of Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement, and space for you to curate a list of titles to educate patrons on the carceral censorship or broader carceral issues please fill out this form.

There are 50 available. Unfortunately, we cannot fulfill requests in excess of 50. Please be sure you will be able to use the display before you order. The generous funder for this initiative will be announced in September.