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Throw the books at inmates"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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HICKS: Throw the books at inmates By Brian Hicks Friday, October 8, 2010 OK, there are probably a few things you don't want inmates in your jail reading. For instance, the J. Campbell Bruce classic "Escape From Alcatraz" or other how-to tomes like "How To Bake a Cake With a File In It ... And Not Get Caught." And don't ever let them get their hands on "Rioting for Dummies." Come to think of it, it's probably not a good idea to let 'em have Harlequin romance novels either. But Berkeley County may have gone too far. According to a lawsuit filed this week by the American Civil Liberties Union, Berkeley jail officials will allow prisoners to read only soft-bound copies of the Bible. The suit was filed on behalf of Prison Legal News, which according to the lawsuit is an inmate-subscriber magazine...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 08, 2010 (boomark / email).

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