As predicted, Dawn Eden’s new book My Peace I Give You, arrived at Concord, New Hampshire’s Prison for Men on the Feast of Saint George, 23 April. The package was opened, marked “Rejected”. It’s not that the prison doesn’t like Dawn’s book. Look closely to the right of the picture below. You’ll see a handwritten note explaining the rules of the prison: “Not from vendor”. O.K. So, we’ll have to order that from Amazon for Pornchai and try again. Even so, I’m told that even if it is accepted, it can take a full month before the inmate sees the book! It has to go through cataloguing and committees and endless bureaucracy. Yikes!
UPDATE: Another copy has been sent from a vendor, Amazon, to be precise. It should arrive 3 May, 2012. But then it has to go through the bureaucracy. So, it’ll still be awhile!
Accompany me, Father George David Byers, S.S.L., S.T.D., as I begin life as a Catholic Priest-Hermit by choice. Holy Souls Hermitage is dedicated to the sanctification of my fellow priests, bishops, deacons & seminarians going through the purgatory of this life or the next. Prayer and sacrifice go up, of course, for both Benedict XVI and the next Successor of Saint Peter. 
How disappointing for you and especially for Pornchai. I had a letter returned last year from the Prison as I had enclosed a card for Fr Gordon which happened to be laminated. They sent me a printed list of 23 items described as ‘rejected material’ with an X against ‘Laminated items.’ Another item mentioned is ‘tattoo patterns’ which struck me as odd.
Hello Pelerin!
The tattoo thing is about gangs and the passing of gang information. Super dangerous for peace in the prison and for the local populations outside the prison where the gangs are. Yikes!