First, it takes advantage of the fact most people don’t know–and frankly, don’t care–how rampant book censorship is in America’s prisons. The comparisons between prisons and public school censorship doesn’t stop there. In America, there are public prisons and there are private prisons, much as there are public and private schools. Public prisons operate using tax money; private prisons hold government contracts and profits from every person held within the facility. Book Censorship News: August 7, 2026