A book ban in prison isn’t like the bans in schools; the censorship in prisons is complete. Bans only further ostracize incarcerated people from society.
Author Archives: Tomas Keen
Tomas Keen is a 2023 PEN America Prison Writing Award winner. His work has appeared in the Economist’s 1843 Magazine, Inquest, Open Campus, Seattle Times, and others. Since 2010, he’s been serving a 20-year prison sentence for first-degree assault in Washington State.

