§60534 — Title 34 Navy | U.S. Code

§60534 Bureau of Prisons policy on chapel library materials

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Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Within 30 days after April 9, 2008, the Director of the Bureau of Prisons must end the Standardized Chapel Library project and any similar program that compiles, lists, or limits prisoners’ access to chapel books, audiotapes, videotapes, or other materials. The Bureau can still block materials that try to promote violence or crime, or that are already banned by other laws or rules. This does not change rules that restrict a particular prisoner’s access to materials for security, safety, sanitation, or disciplinary reasons.

Title 34, §60534

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(a)Not later than 30 days after April 9, 2008, the Director of the Bureau of Prisons shall discontinue the Standardized Chapel Library project, or any other project by whatever designation that seeks to compile, list, or otherwise restrict prisoners’ access to reading materials, audiotapes, videotapes, or any other materials made available in a chapel library, except that the Bureau of Prisons may restrict access to—

(1)any materials in a chapel library that seek to incite, promote, or otherwise suggest the commission of violence or criminal activity; and

(2)any other materials prohibited by any other law or regulation.

(b)Nothing in this section shall be construed to impact policies of the Bureau of Prisons related to access by specific prisoners to materials for security, safety, sanitation, or disciplinary reasons.

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 17534 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

§60534 Bureau of Prisons policy on chapel library materials

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Title 34, §60534

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