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April 20, 2004
Prison destroys inmates writing
firstamendmentcenter.org: news:
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Prison officials destroyed computer files containing inmates' personal writing days after a prisoner won a national writing award, best-selling author Wally Lamb said.Heinous! The PEN American Center should do something in response.
Lamb, who teaches a creative-writing workshop at the York Correctional Facility in East Lyme, said yesterday that 15 female inmates lost up to five years of work when officials at the prison's school ordered all hard drives used for the class erased and its computer disks turned over.
Posted April 20, 2004 12:43 PM