‘Friday Night Lights’ banned from Texas prisons, but ‘Mein Kampf’ allowed

AUSTIN (NEXSTAR) — The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has banned more than 15,000 books from the 140,000 inmates that reside in prisons across the state.
Texas, which has one of the longest banned books list in the nation, has prohibited its inmates from reading Dante’s “Inferno”, Pulitzer prize-winning “The Color Purple”, and the Texas football classic “Friday Night Lights” for its single use of a racial slur. Books like Adolf Hitler&rs