That some workers are feeling left behind and have already witnessed firsthand how institutional neglect can ravage working-class communities is a familiar concept to me. When then-New Jersey governor Chris Christie approved a new natural gas pipeline project that would snake through the pristine wilderness of the Pine Barrens, the South Jersey nature preserve where I grew up and my entire family still lives, my first thought was of my dad: He’s been a union construction worker since he was 18, and chances were he’d be called to work on the pipeline, if it ever made it out of the courts. books and other reading materials sent to incarcerated people through a state’s Departments of Corrections are regularly censored. Often, individual prison staff are responsible for monitoring the influx of materials, which they can often reject or deny at their discretion. The practice inhibits knowledge about gender, sexuality, health, and many other important topics to those behind bars. While the specific guidelines vary from state to state, and even prison to prison, the United States houses 2.3 million people in 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 1,852 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,163 local jails, and 80 Indian Country jails in addition to military prisons, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers, state psychiatric hospitals, and prisons, according to a 2018 report byPrison Policy Initiative Kiernan shared some fun photos from her birthday party toher Instagramon Sunday, with celebs likeThe Office's BJ Novak,David Dobrikand herChilling AdventurespalRoss Lynch that when reached for comment, a media administrator for IDOC said in an email that “the publication has not been banned at any IDOC facilities,” but noted that it wasn’t clear which publication was being referred to, and that further communication to the IDOC had not been responded to at the time of publication. (Teen Vogue