Prison authorities at the Florence ADX Supermax prison turned down Ahmed’s request to read President Obama’s books The Audacity of Hope and Dreams from My Father on the grounds that they contained material “potentially detrimental to national security”.
“Joshua Dratel, a lawyer acting for the prisoner, has complained that Abu Ali is being imprisoned under such harsh conditions they resemble something out of Lewis Carroll. The prisoner himself wrote a short handwritten note saying his first amendment rights had been violated.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/10/barack-obama-books-blocked-prison