After an intense outrcry from inmates, members of congress and religious groups the Bureu of Prisons repealed it’s decision to remove all but 150 ‘acceptable’ religious texts from the nations prisons. All religious materials that have been removed will be returned and most texts that were to be removed will remain in circulation.

The exception will be texts that incite violence or encourage radicalization which was the initial intention of the Chapel Library Project. The initiative was launched after  a 2004 Department of Justice report linking ‘dangerous’ religious texts to inmate violence. Critics are now waiting to see if the already removed materials will be returned in manner that complies to the Bureaus promises.