In 2011, Mark Melvin, an inmate at the Kilby Correctional Facility, was banned from reading the book by Alabama Department of Corrections officials who deemed it "an attempt to incite violence based on race, religion, sex, creed or nationality".
Mark Melvin was banned from reading the book by Alabama Department of Corrections officials "an attempt to incite violence based on race, religion, sex, creed or nationality". This was in 2011. These Corrections officials deemed it. Mark Melvin was an inmate at the Kilby Correctional Facility.