Bible

Jewish Inmates Say Torah Now Banned

07/20/2007
Staff Writer

The war on terror has spread to America’s federal prisons — and Jewish inmates appear to have become unintended victims.
Fearful that some religious books — particularly those of Muslims — might promote “violence and radicalization,” the federal Bureau of Prisons has removed all but 150 books per religion from its prison chapels. As a result, Jewish inmates who have long had access to hundreds of Jewish books, complain that now even the Torah is denied to them.

Syndicate content