Re: [CAR-PGa] State prison book bannings


Thanks for keeping in touch about this. 




On Sunday, December 25, 2022 at 02:50:49 PM EST, M. Alan Thomas II <m.alan.thomas.ii@gmail.com> wrote:


We've long had a problem with RPG books being banned in prisons. I even worked on this back in my early days with CAR-PGa, 20–25 years ago.

A few days ago, The Marshall Project put out a database of works banned in state prisons for each state that keeps a list. Unfortunately, I know from experience that frequently these decisions are made on an individual prison level rather than being recorded on a statewide list somewhere, and many states don't actually keep centralized lists of what they ban at all. Still, they got more than 50,000 titles from across half the states.

The lead image for the database page includes the AD&D 2nd edition supplement Anauroch. Have fun hunting for more RPG examples!

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/12/21/prison-banned-books-list-find-your-state

—M. Alan Thomas II

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Re: [CAR-PGa] From my archives

Hi, Alan. What a fun discovery!

It would be great if you could send them off to Hawke Robinson (www.rpgresearch.com/about) to filter into the archives.

Have a fun weekend!

David



On Sun, Dec 4, 2022 at 1:39 AM M. Alan Thomas II <m.alan.thomas.ii@gmail.com> wrote:
I was digging through some old papers and found the material in the attached photo, including old letters, various bits of literature from the archives, and a bunch of old Newsletters. Probably most or all of it is in the archives already (except for my personal letters during an attempted takeover by a small games publisher), but I figured I'd check if anyone wanted it before I recycled it.

—M. Alan Thomas II

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