FOIA Appeal Filed To Get Information On Bureau of Prisons Chapel Library Project

The ACLU announced last week that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act Appeal (full text) seeking all records held by the Bureau of Prisons on their attempt in 2007 to remove various books from prison chapel libraries. (See prior posting.) The Standardized Chapel Library Project was ended by legislation later in 2007. (See prior posting.) The FOIA appeal was filed on behalf of a California graduate student who is writing a thesis on censorship of religious materials in federal prisons. His initial request resulted in only a four documents being furnished to him. The appeal asks for a broader search for relevant documents.