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| Book Company: Prison Bans Book On Kindness |
| By EWorldWire |
| Published: 07/14/2003 |
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Dame Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop and a noted entrepreneur and human-rights activist, has learned that her new book 'A Revolution in Kindness' has been banned from the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola as 'a threat to internal security.' 'The fact that a book about the power of kindness can be denounced as a threat to security beggars belief and is yet more evidence of the issue of security being ambushed and colonized by politicians to buttress their own repressive and undemocratic agendas,' said Roddick. She has written a letter to the prison's warden, Burl Cain, demanding an explanation. 'I cannot imagine how anything in 'A Revolution in Kindness' could threaten prison security,' she wrote. 'Indeed, I would think that a book about kindness would enhance institutional security. I know that your institution has among its stated goals the rehabilitation of prisoners. It seems to me that 'A Revolution in Kindness,' if read by prisoners, could only contribute to this goal.' The confiscated copy of 'A Revolution in Kindness' was intended for an inmate named Herman Wallace, who contributed an essay to the book. Wallace is one of the inmates known as the Angola Three, who have been in solitary confinement for 31 years because they were Black Panthers determined to improve conditions in what was considered the 'bloodiest prison in America' in the early 1970s. Roddick has been campaigning for their freedom since 2000. Officials inside the prison have confirmed that the book was rejected for security reasons, but refused to elaborate. In May, Roddick was ejected from the prison while visiting Albert Woodfox (another member of the Angola Three, who also contributed to the book), and prison officials have refused to explain why. 'A Revolution in Kindness' (Anita Roddick Books, 2003) is a compilation of essays by celebrities, politicians, homeless people, activists, refugees, doctors, entrepreneurs, and philosophers about how the world might be transformed if kindness trumped other values, such as greed, revenge, and power. The book contains essays by Roddick, Ralph Nader, Angelina Jolie, Annie Lennox, Philip Berrigan and many more. |
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