...and read only what I want you to read

We go now to rural South Carolina, where a jail has a particularly interesting idea for its inmates - you can read anything you want, as long as it's the Bible. No, not that one, the Christian one. Not only is this an obvious freedom of religion issue, but as the article points out, it limits prisoners' rights to things like a fair trial, as they aren't even allowed to read about their social-contract-given rights...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/06/AR2010100604933.html?hpid=sec-religion

The American Civil Liberties Union filed the federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the policy on behalf of Prison Legal News, a monthly journal on prison law. The 16-page complaint says officials at the Berkeley County jail in Moncks Corner, about 100 miles southeast of Columbia, are violating several of the magazine's and inmates' constitutional rights including free speech, freedom of religion and right to due process.
Since 2008, the publishers of Prison Legal News have tried to send magazines, letters and self-help books about prison life to several inmates at the jail, the complaint says. Some were sent back, and in July a jail official wrote an e-mail to the publishers referencing the jail's policy.
"Our inmates are only allowed to receive soft back bibles in the mail directly from the publisher," First Sergeant K. Habersham noted in the e-mail. "They are not allowed to have magazines, newspapers, or any other type of books."