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MAMMOTH BOOK OF NEW TATTOO ART, THE

LAL HARDY

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MAMMOTH BOOK OF NEW TATTOO ART, THE is a book by LAL HARDY. 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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About the work

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MAMMOTH BOOK OF NEW TATTOO ART, THE is a book by LAL HARDY. 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.

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 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 188, 200, 246. More publication history, translations, and close reading can be added later.

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Why it was banned

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MAMMOTH BOOK OF NEW TATTOO ART, THE 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 2014-07-10 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 188, 200, 246. 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 188, 200, 246, 280, 311, 323 & 369 SEXUALLY EXPLICIT.

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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Known government actions

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Date Jurisdiction Action Reason Note
2014-07-10 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 188, 200, 246. 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 188, 200, 246, 280, 311, 323 & 369 SEXUALLY EXPLICIT.
2014-10-29 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. Many pictures of breasts and.

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