You can get "Mein Kampf" with Texas Department of Criminal Justice blessings, but Thomas More's "Utopia" has been banned. Credit: Gwyndion Williams

You can get “Mein Kampf” with Texas Department of Criminal Justice blessings, but Thomas More’s “Utopia” has been banned.
Credit: Gwyndion Williams

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has steadily been banning books for decades, but the latest decision, to keep the book Wolf Boys out of state prison circulation because of a single page the TDCJ found offensive, has caused a lot of double takes.

This month, the TDCJ powers-that-be looked over the book by Dan Slater, which tells the story of two teenagers who end up joining the Zetas cartel and then land in state prison, right here in Texas. Any book not included on the list of approved reading material gets kicked to this committee, and if the committee finds the book problematic it is banned, and that’s that.

This time, the committee opted to keep the book out because of two sentences:

“Mario purchased pickup trucks from […]

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