Finally, I will note that this censorship can occur with both print and digital materials. While Blumberg doesn't say this, I expect that this censorship will soon be handled by AI, which could review digital materials faster and might even use digital bibliographic information to pass judgement on print items. Hopefully anti-censorship legislation will take the potential impact of AI into account.
Prison Libraries
Prison censorship: Law libraries need Microsoft Word.
Why I’m So Desperate for the Return of Microsoft Word to Our Prison Library
From 1971, when the Supreme Court endorsed prison law libraries, keeping them updated with the latest legal materials and tech has always been a point of contention between prison staff and people incarcerated there. Prisoners have legally faced off with administrators from California to Tennessee over typewriters and computers. In response to one such complaint, one district judge stated, “the typed word leaps more vivid to the watery judicial eye.”
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