New Jersey officials say they'll lift ban on book The New Jim Crow in prisons

Best-selling book on mass incarceration and racial discrimination to be available to inmates after ACLU questioned why at least two prisons withheld the book

New Jersey corrections officials say a best-selling book on mass incarceration and racial discrimination will now be available to inmates at all state correctional facilities, following a ban that had withheld the book from some facilities.

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