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BRED BY THE SLUMS: LOYALTY IN BLOOD

GHOST

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BRED BY THE SLUMS: LOYALTY IN BLOOD is a book by GHOST. The Texas prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime.

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BRED BY THE SLUMS: LOYALTY IN BLOOD is a book by GHOST. The Texas prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime.

What makes it interesting is the prison-censorship logic: officials treat the book as a practical threat model and collapse the distinction between reading about something and doing it. As a book, it can be read not only for subject matter but for the way form, tone, and circulation make a text feel dangerous, intimate, or politically usable to anxious officials.

It also matters as part of a wider censorship history in Texas. The present page is a dossier starter built from source-tracked ban records; the surviving note currently says: The Texas prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: PGS 8 & 9 INCEST. More publication history, translations, and close reading can be added later.

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Why it was banned

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BRED BY THE SLUMS: LOYALTY IN BLOOD entered censorship debates as a book associated with circulation politics, institutional control, and risk knowledge. In the current dossier, the main state objections cluster around instructional harm, public order, incitement to violence, and violence.

The earliest event currently captured here is 2018-06-18 in Texas, where Texas corrections agencies and prison mailrooms excluded from prison circulation. The Texas prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: PGS 8 & 9 INCEST. The Texas prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: PGS 8 & 9 INCEST MTR/SON

The record already stretches across Texas and Wisconsin, which is why the page should be read as a cross-border censorship trail rather than a single isolated dispute.

This page is intentionally incomplete. The ban history is a starter dataset, not a final census of every jurisdiction or decree.

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Context, rebuttals, and criticism

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Known government actions

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Date Jurisdiction Action Reason Note
2018-06-18 Texas excluded from prison circulation The Texas prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: PGS 8 & 9 INCEST. The Texas prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: PGS 8 & 9 INCEST MTR/SON
Date not yet pinned down Wisconsin excluded from prison circulation The Wisconsin prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: DOC 309.04 4. The Wisconsin prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: DOC 309.04 4 (c) 8 a, b, c. Contains graphic sex.

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