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More censorship. Florida No. 1 in prison book-bans. Even books about ‘Star Trek’ and flowers | Commentary – Orlando Sentinel

Florida has banned prison inmates from reading more than 20,000 books and magazines, including coloring books, language-learning texts and issues of ‘The Economist.’ Some bookstores, like this one in Virginia, don't think much of book-banning. (SCOTT P. YATES, The Roanoke Times/AP)

It’s hard to keep track of all the things that have been banned and censored here in the “Free State of Florida” — from middle school math books to live entertainment.

But some of the most-banned commodities in the Sunshine State are the books allowed in prisons.

As the Orlando Sentinel’s Amanda Rabines recently reported, Florida’s prison system is a leading book-banner, restricting everything from issues of The Economist magazine to “Betty Crocker’s Good and Easy Cookbook.”

And when the researchers from The Marshall Project, a nonprofit focused on the U.S. justice system, describe Florida as a leading book-banner, they mean leading by a country mile.