Prog Blog Outrage After Kansas Prisons Cancel Dead-Tree Subscriptions

We're certain there are many free speech issues to debate . . .

However . . .

For those of us who actually know people in lockup . . . It's obvious that just about everybody in prison can get their hands on a mobile phone.

And so . . .

We can only hope that convicts are reading the news with their illicit tech rather than doing anything scarier . . . 

Accordingly, we present the clue-less journalist take just for fun . . .

"The Kansas Department of Corrections, which oversees all youth and adult detention facilities, changed without notice its department-wide newspaper subscription policy on Aug. 27, blindsiding newspaper publishers across Kansas.

"Previously, families of incarcerated people could take out a newspaper subscription in a person’s name and have it delivered to a state facility. The agency says it made the change, forbidding newspaper subscriptions paid for by outside parties, for safety.

"But for those serving time, a subscription can act as a tether to reality while inside a Kansas prison’s walls."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Kansas prisons reject newspaper subscriptions, blindsiding publishers and cutting off information