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Texas prisons ban The Color Purple – but Mein Kampf and KKK books are fine

Written By Unknown on Saturday, December 2, 2017 | 4:51 PM

The state’s prisoners are banned from reading more than 10,000 titles including Monty Python’s Big Red Book and Where’s Waldo? Santa Spectacular

Books including The Color Purple, Freakonomics and Monty Python’s Big Red Book are banned in Texas state prisons – but Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf and two books by former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke are not.

The Dallas Morning News reported the choices made by the Texas department of criminal justice (TDCJ) on behalf of thousands of inmates.

Related: ‘Write no more’: 10 books that were banned

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