THE BALTIMORE SUN
Justin Fenton | July 15, 2011

A Maryland prison has banned a book written by an inmate serving a life sentence, citing “security reasons.”

In a memo circulating the Internet, the warden of the Maryland Correctional Training Center in Hagerstown said that “Marshall Law – The Life & Times of a Baltimore Black Panther” the autobiography of inmate Marshall “Eddie” Conway was being banned and should be “confiscated and disposed of … at the inmate’s expense” if found. Prison officials confirmed the authenticity of the memo.

David Rocah, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, called the book ban “flagrantly unconstitutional.”

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Tags: Censorship, Collection development policies, Maryland, Prisons

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