Comments on: Prison Book Purge http://northernpath.org/blog/2007/09/10/prison-book-purge/ News of the Northern Tradition Sat, 19 May 2012 03:35:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Mike H. http://northernpath.org/blog/2007/09/10/prison-book-purge/#comment-583 Mike H. Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:56:49 +0000 http://northernpath.org/blog/2007/09/10/prison-book-purge/#comment-583 The Hartford Courant's lead editorial today (Sep 19) was on this very topic: http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-bookban.artsep19,0,4391332.story It concludes with these words: "Of course prisons must guard against exposing the incarcerated to extremist screeds and situations that foment violence. But the culling of chapel collections en masse and the imposition of religious standards weighted, as some view it, toward evangelical popularism and Calvinism, is an overreaction akin, as one official noted, to swatting flies with a sledgehammer. The Hartford Courant’s lead editorial today (Sep 19) was on this very topic:

http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-bookban.artsep19,0,4391332.story

It concludes with these words:
“Of course prisons must guard against exposing the incarcerated to extremist screeds and situations that foment violence. But the culling of chapel collections en masse and the imposition of religious standards weighted, as some view it, toward evangelical popularism and Calvinism, is an overreaction akin, as one official noted, to swatting flies with a sledgehammer.

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