{"id":10056,"date":"2011-04-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/04\/15\/us-justice-department-joins-suit-against-bibles-only-jail-policies\/"},"modified":"2011-04-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T12:00:00","slug":"us-justice-department-joins-suit-against-bibles-only-jail-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/04\/15\/us-justice-department-joins-suit-against-bibles-only-jail-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"US Justice Department Joins Suit Against Bibles-only Jail Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNS<\/p>\n<p>USA, April 11 (Religion News Service): Bibles cannot be the only reading materials allowed in jail, the U.S. Department of Justice said in joining a lawsuit against a South Carolina detention center on Tuesday (April 12). <\/p>\n<p>The original suit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Prison Legal News last October, charged that the Berkeley County Detention Center&#8217;s policy of banning all books other than the Bible was unconstitutional. &#8220;The county&#8217;s religious intolerance tramples our freedom of religion which is a cornerstone of the United States Constitution,&#8221; said William N. Nettles, the U.S. Attorney for South Carolina, in a statement Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the suit, copies of other publications were thrown away or shipped back. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RNS USA, April 11 (Religion News Service): Bibles cannot be the only reading materials allowed in jail, the U.S. Department,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}