Esquire: “What Can You Read in Prison?”:
“As they await change, incarcerated people are finding their own ways around the mercurial system. One woman described keeping a decoy book jacket on hand in order to hide any political materials with a benign-looking white woman’s author photo. Another mentioned stocking library shelves with books sent to him from the outside so that other browsers with less helpful connections could benefit from some secondhand largesse.
Other people declined to share their tricks for hiding, finding, and concealing books on the inside. With material this valuable, they say, they can’t risk one more thing being taken away.”