What makes the wiping of prison imate hard drives more pernicious is that it comes as inmate Barbara Parsons Lane is set to win tonight's PEN/Faulkner First Amendment award. If prisoners were not allowed to write, we wouldn't have the words of Eldrige Cleaver, O. Henry, Jean Genet, or Marquis de Sade to stack on our bookshelves.
Posted by DrMabuse at April 20, 2004 10:08 AM