I'm sorry, but this is just pure madness. It seems the people who could truly benefit from increased faith are being denied the possibility of finding that faith unless it comes from a "government approved" religion. Shame, shame.

Maybe they should replace the books they took with the ones in Washington DC, since it's obvious that no one there ever looks at them.

New York Times
By Laurie Goodstein

Behind the walls of federal prisons nationwide, chaplains have been quietly carrying out a systematic purge of religious books and materials that were once available to prisoners in chapel libraries.