COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A former federal prison warden says a Bible-only policy for inmates at a South Carolina jail is stricter than policies governing reading materials allowed to some the country's most dangerous inmates.
John L. Clark says in court documents filed Monday that inmates should be able to receive all religious texts and stapled materials.
Clark's statements were filed by the Prison Legal News. Inmates at the Berkeley County jail in Moncks Corner have been barred from reading the monthly legal journal, which contains staples.
The American Civil Liberties Union has sued the jail on the publication's behalf, arguing that officials are violating the magazine's and inmates' constitutio
nal rights. An attorney for the jail says inmates are allowed non-Christian religious texts and that jail policies should have been better worded.
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