Prisons to Restore Purged Religious Books


	Prisons to Restore Purged Religious Books

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9-27-2007 6:29 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b4d1c575-8319-4408-af78-fdac69babfbf/7BA382D9-9E44-4F5F-B324-AA89951F3026/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/washington/27prison.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=todayspaper&adxnnlx=1190932068-kiDO3zp2Q+0Jx3+dNqMPlg" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/washington/27prison.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=todayspaper&adxnnlx=1190932068-kiDO3zp2Q+0Jx3+dNqMPlg" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/washington/27prison.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=todayspaper&adxnnlx=1190932068-kiDO3zp2Q+0Jx3+dNqMPlg">Facing pressure from religious groups, civil libertarians and members of Congress, the federal Bureau of Prisons has decided to return religious materials that had been purged from prison chapel libraries because they were not on the bureau’s lists of approved resources.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/washington/27prison.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=todayspaper&adxnnlx=1190932068-kiDO3zp2Q+0Jx3+dNqMPlg"> The bureau had said it was prompted to remove the materials after a 2004 Department of Justice report mentioned that religious books that incite violence could infiltrate chapel libraries.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/washington/27prison.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=todayspaper&adxnnlx=1190932068-kiDO3zp2Q+0Jx3+dNqMPlg">After the details of the removal became widely known this month, Republican lawmakers, liberal Christians and evangelical talk shows all criticized the government for creating a list of acceptable religious books.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7BA382D9-9E44-4F5F-B324-AA89951F3026/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>