Critics Right and Left Protest Book Removals
The federal Bureau of Prisons is under pressure from members of Congress and religious groups to reverse its decision to purge the shelves of prison chapel libraries of all religious books and materials that are not on the bureau’s lists of approved resources.
Outrage over the bureau’s decision has come from both conservatives and liberals, who say it is inappropriate to limit inmates to a religious reading list determined by the government.
Click here for New York Times article.
Click here for GetReligion.org article
Click here for Boston Globe article
I read the NY Times article — interesting — thanks for posting this.
I blogged about this, too: http://aplfriends.blogspot.com/2007/09/critics-right-and-left-protest-book.html