Legal Opinion
Wesley R. Tarpley v. Allen County, Indiana
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 10, 2002No. 01-2982PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
This case concerns how far prison officials must go in furnishing religious materials to inmates in their custody. When plaintiff Wesley Tarpley was moved to the jail in Allen County, Indiana, the jail personnel confiscated his personal Bible and gave him a substitute Bible to use while he was there. The substitute was the same version of the Bible as Tarpley’s own, but it did not include the interpretive commentary that Tarpley’s copy had. Tarpley claims that the refusal of the jail to make available the version with commentary violated his First Amendment right…
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