New records shed light on inconsistencies in New York State prison book bans

By Candela Ramírez Since 2019 Cecilia Fernández and Matías Sarlo give form to Zafarrancho Editions: an artistic project that has different expressions: sometimes they are publications, other workshops or exhibitions.In February of this year they presented their last work: The Land (a)guarda, a drop-down book that has as its core a series of photos of books that were buried during the last dictatorship.The story is like this: in 1979, in San Greg…

New records shed light on inconsistencies in New York State prison book bans

In some facilities, no texts are blocked. In others, hundreds are redacted or banned. Overall, one in six texts was censored.