Home Prison & Justice Writing Works of Justice Where It Hurts: How Book Bans Restrict Access to Healthcare “It’s coming out! Down there!” My 20-year-old handcuffed neighbor, Mina, says through clenched teeth as she passes my door to a mandatory disciplinary hearing. She’s been in prison half her life, entering juvenile at age ten and a half with a second grade reading level. Six years later, she was transferred from juvenile directly to adult solitary confinement. The reading level followed her.
