The book ‘Chokehold: Policing Black Men’ explores how black men in America are treated by the police and within the prison system.
A book that explores how black men in America are treated by both the police and within the prison system has been banned in Arizona state prisons.
Butler said the word “Chokehold” in the title has a double entendre. One is how police restrain suspects by the neck, and the other is how African American men are subjugated by both society and the law. “In order for them to ban a book, they have to show the restriction is related to a legitimate prison interest,” Sykes said. “There’s no interest to keep inmates from learning about the criminal justice system and policing.”
The state’s corrections department prohibits inmates from receiving books, magazines, newspapers or other publications that contain information or descriptions that could potentially incite a riot. The prisons also prohibit illustrations, pictures or text that encourage “unacceptable sexual or hostile behaviors.”
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