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Oregon prisons banned inmates from reading Amy Schumer’s biography and a book about playing the ukulele. The reasons can be surprising

A bookshelf inside of Coffee Creek Correctional Institution women's facility in

A bookshelf inside of Coffee Creek Correctional Institution women's facility in December 2016. File photo. Beth Nakamura/Staff LC-LC-

When Sterling Cunio walked out of the Oregon State Penitentiary in November 2021, the only possessions he took with him were notebooks filled with his writing, a plant and a book collection he’d amassed over 28 years of incarceration.

Some of those books – such as Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" and Nelson Mandela's "Long Walk to Freedom" – changed the course of his life, Cunio says.

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