Movies banned from MA state prisons
The Boston Globe / Boston.com
Actors Heath Ledger, left, and Jake Gyllenhaal, in a scene from 'Brokeback Mountain.' Despite its Academy Award status, the movie was deemed inappropriate for viewing at MCI-Norfolk, the state's largest prison. A prison recreation officer faces discipline for showing the movie, without having screened it first, to inmates at the prison.
Actors Heath Ledger, left, and Jake Gyllenhaal, in a scene from "Brokeback Mountain." Despite its Academy Award status, the movie was deemed inappropriate for viewing at MCI-Norfolk, the state's largest prison. A prison recreation officer faces discipline for showing the movie, without having screened it first, to inmates at the prison.
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