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New York’s Prison System Abruptly Halts a Policy Censoring Artists and Writers

June 8, 2023

By: Victoria Law, The Nation

A painting by Davide Coggins, mailed to the author in mid-May. (Victoria Law)

One day after New York Focus broke the story about the censorship policy, the state department announced that it would suspend the rule impeding creative endeavors in prisons

Stanley Bellamy was outraged when he learned that New York’s prison system had introduced rules placing onerous restrictions and lengthy approval processes for incarcerated writers and artists.

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Category: News Articlestag: aging inmates, Carl Heastie, Davide Coggins, Department of Correction and Community Supervision, Directive 4406, Kathy Hochul, Mohawk Correctional Facility, Moira Marquis, New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, PEN America’s FreeWrite Project, Stanley Bellamy, The Nation, Val Gaiter, Victoria Law

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