South Carolina Jail Bans All Books But Bible

csmonitor.com:

The US Justice Department is asking a federal judge in South Carolina to allow it to intervene in a lawsuit against a sheriff who allegedly forbids prisoners in his jail from receiving books, magazines, or printed materials other than copies of the King James version of the Bible.

Berkeley County Sheriff H. Wayne DeWitt denies that restrictions imposed at the county lockup in Moncks Corner, S.C., rise to the level of a constitutional violation or violate US law.

Read the whole story: csmonitor.com

Comments

[rainkitty]

05:45 AM on 04/21/2011

April 18th Tea Party rally in Columbia, South Carolina
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/38418_Video-_Tea_Party_Racism_In_Your_Face

[dbrett480]

02:19 PM on 04/16/2011

If you have a problem with the policy, don't commit crimes in Berkely County, SC.

[MohammedAbbasi]

08:40 PM on 04/15/2011

Southern Baptist fanatics are taking over the asylum!

[YourNewNeighbor]

03:52 AM on 04/15/2011

The only "good" thing I could ever imagine about jail is reading endlessly to pass the time. If all I was offered was a Bible, I'd call up the Freedom From Religion Foundation and American's United for Separation of Church and State and get their badazz lawyers on the case of these proselytizing y0kels.

[Tox of Oz]

12:33 AM on 04/15/2011

As an athiest i am so glad i do not live in the US, the one group all the religious unthinkers agree they hate is us. The King James Bible has to be one of the worst works of fiction ever printed.

[QueenOfViolets]

12:32 PM on 04/14/2011

This jail is run by some truly sick individuals who need to put in jail themselves.

[Chockolate]

11:51 AM on 04/14/2011

Why don't they make prisoners copy out the Bible once a week as a form of punishment too?

[SoapboxKing]

11:44 AM on 04/14/2011

Clearly this man does not understand or care about the Constitution.

[MajorKong]

11:25 AM on 04/14/2011

What? No Atlas Shrugged? I figured they would have let that one slip through at least.