COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- 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.

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