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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Book Censored in Illinois Prisons

Blood in the Water
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Lawsuit alleges violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the US Constitution

 CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—September 13, 2018
Contacts: Alan Mills and Megan Groves 

Today, attorneys filed a lawsuit on behalf of historian Heather Thompson, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning book Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy was censored by Illinois prison officials.

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Attorneys from Uptown People’s Law Center and Sidley Austin LLP filed the lawsuit. It alleges that this…

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