On March 31, Cardozo’s Civil Rights Clinic and the New York Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit challenging the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision’s censorship of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising and Its Legacy, a Pulitzer-prize winning book by Dr. Heather Ann Thompson. 

3Ls Miles Dixon-Darling and Isaac Strauss worked with Director and Professor Betsy Ginsberg on the suit. 

“Words have the power to liberate and access to reading material is a fundamental human right. It speaks volumes that DOCCS continues to deny tens of thousands of incarcerated New Yorkers the right to read about Attica,” said Dixon-Darling.  “We hope that this case will help bring public attention to the all-too-often arbitrary violations of incarcerated individuals’ right to free speech guaranteed by the United States Constitution,” Strauss added. 

Read more coverage of this news in ABC News, The Associated Press, Gothamist and The New York Law Journal.