Mail Censorship

Excerpts from Paton Price's Prison Letters on Censorship Strikes

In this compilation of correspondence to Bayard Rustin, imprisoned conscientious objector Paton Price documents a prolonged hunger strike protesting censorship at Lewisburg Penitentiary. Price describes the physical and psychological toll of the strike, including forced feeding, while outlining demands for greater access to books, journals, mail, and protection from arbitrary censorship of prisoners’ writings.