The Militant is winning broad support in its fight to overturn the ban on a recent issue of the socialist newsweekly by Blackwater River Correctional Facility officials in Florida. “Prisons cannot ban a publication without notice or reason,” the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, said in its letter to Florida prison officials. Starting in 2013 Florida prison officials have tried to suppress the Militant nearly 50 times. Texas is close behind, and the two prison systems account for about half of the 54,000 books banned by prison officials in the 18 states the report covers. Florida prison officials banned the book in September alleging that it is “dangerously inflammatory in that it advocates or encourages” unrest.
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