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Old August 6th, 2013 #3768
Donald E. Pauly
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Smile Prison Bureaucracies

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Originally Posted by M. Gerard View Post
I am in contact with a prisoner in another federal prison, and he has trouble getting the books he wants, because the Chaplain will only order from Barnes and Noble, and not any of the alternate or the used book publishers that Barnes and Noble offers. This is for "religious" books that are paid for by a prison fund. The prisoner's religion is Asratru (sp?) or Odinism.

Prisons are very weird places with rules that get ignored all the time until the prisoners file complaints. This same prisoner was told he could not see the dentist unless his teeth were falling out of his head. He filed a complaint, I believe, and was seen after that.
What you say is no doubt true but Steele was a Coast Guard Officer for nearly four years. Surely he could have navigated the jail politics of his home town sheriff over a lousy book if he were sane. He just wanted to pick a fight and it cost him a 200 mile move. Even then, it wouldn't have hurt him to read a Bible where Jesus talks about lawyers. This quote from a Protestant Bible is close enough.

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Luke 11:46
New International Version (NIV)

Jesus replied, “And you experts in the law, woe to you, because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them.