ACLU Sues SC Jail Over Bible Policy

Posted: 3:07 pm EDT October 6, 2010

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The American Civil Liberties Union is suing a South Carolina jail to challenge a policy barring inmates from having any reading materials except the Bible.The ACLU says in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday that other religious texts and secular publications should also be allowed at the Berkeley County jail.The ACLU filed the suit on behalf of Prison Legal News, a monthly journal on prison law. The lawsuit says jail officials are violating the magazine's First and 14th Amendment rights by refusing to deliver the publication to inmates.The lawsuit asks a federal judge to order the Bible-only policy halted and to let a jury hear the case.A spokesman for Berkeley County Sheriff Wayne DeWitt did not immediately return messages seeking comment.

 

ONCE AGAIN THE ACLU IS IN SOMEONE'S BUSINESS. IF THEY ARE IN JAIL WHAT THEY NEED TO READ IS THE BIBLE. IS IT TOO MUCH TO ASK THESE INMATES THIS QUESTION? IF YOU WISH TO READ SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE BIBLE THEN " DON'T COME TO JAIL" ? I MEAN GIVE ME A BREAK.