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§ 09 · Restricted publications · source edition 2026-01-12

What Michigan keeps out.

The public list is more revealing when read as a record, not a headline. Every spine below is one publication entry. Pull one forward to see exactly which code and narrative language MDOC published.

312publication entries
146without a standardized code
234with narrative language
1with neither field present

The distinction that matters

Uncoded is not unexplained.

A row can omit a standardized rejection code while still publishing a narrative reason. This feature keeps those fields separate. The unfinished catalog label means “no standardized code”; the blackout is reserved for the much narrower case where neither field appears and does not assert that MDOC redacted either field.

Two published fields · four mutually exclusive states

The public fields, exactly.

The widest band is narrative-only, not unexplained. The hairline at the end is the single row where neither a standardized code nor narrative language appears.

  1. 0189
    Code + narrative28.5% of 312
  2. 0277
    Code only24.7% of 312
  3. 03145
    Narrative only · no standardized code46.5% of 312
  4. 041
    Neither code nor narrative0.3% of 312
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Source and caveat ledger

Every claim returns to the row.

The interface preserves raw title, author, format, date, code text, narrative language, identifiers, page, row, and parser warnings. Counts describe this public list edition; they do not reveal MDOC’s complete internal review process.

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Michigan Department of Corrections. Restricted Publication List. Edition 2026-01-12. Archived by Michigan Inside with row-level provenance.

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