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Dirty Old Men

Omar Tyree

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Dirty Old Men is a book by Omar Tyree. The exported reason says: Describes and depicts sexual acts involving children.

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About the work

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Dirty Old Men is a book by Omar Tyree. The exported reason says: Describes and depicts sexual acts involving children.

Its interest lies partly in the way literary or informational writing gets collapsed into a public-morality problem. 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 Michigan. The present page is a dossier starter built from source-tracked ban records; the surviving note currently says: The Michigan 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: Describes and. More publication history, translations, and close reading can be added later.

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Why it was banned

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Dirty Old Men entered censorship debates as a book associated with circulation politics, institutional control, morality, print scandal, risk knowledge, and sexuality. In the current dossier, the main state objections cluster around obscenity, public morality, instructional harm, and public order.

The earliest event currently captured here is 2014-08-29 in Michigan, where Michigan corrections agencies and prison mailrooms excluded from prison circulation. The Michigan 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: Describes and. The Michigan 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: Describes and depicts sexual acts involving children.

The record already stretches across Michigan, Wisconsin, and Virginia, 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.

Counter and critical readings

Context, rebuttals, and criticism

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Ban history

Known government actions

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Date Jurisdiction Action Reason Note
2014-08-29 Michigan excluded from prison circulation The Michigan 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: Describes and. The Michigan 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: Describes and depicts sexual acts involving children.
2014-11-14 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: Denied per DOC. 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: Denied per DOC 309.04 4 (c) 8 a, c.
Date not yet pinned down Virginia excluded from prison circulation The Virginia 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: A1, A2 The Virginia 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: A1, A2

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