ACLU sues for prisoners’ ‘right’ to porn
Lawsuit not over Bible, as widely reported, but about access to nude photos
Posted: May 31, 2011
10:06 pm Eastern
By Drew Zahn
© 2011 WND
 Berkeley County Jail |
A South Carolina jail made national headlines last month for allegedly forbidding its inmates to read anything but the Bible.
But it turns out the American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit filed against the Berkeley County Jail in Moncks Corner, S.C., isn’t over the Bible; it’s over pornography.
“The press seems to be saying that the only thing allowed in the jail is a Christian Bible, and that is just not true. And it has not been true,” Sandra J. Senn, attorney for the jail, told WXJT-TV in Jacksonville, Fla. “We allow all religious texts regardless of the religion and have for years. And there is plenty of reading materials in the jail such as novels, crossword puzzles [and] pamphlets.”
What the jail doesn’t permit is reading materials bound together by tape, staples, paper clips or clasps, nor are inmates allowed literature that would “encourage deviant sexual behavior.”
The ACLU, however, argues that those restrictions limit prisoners’ choices too much and that banning pornography violates inmates’ rights.
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