Judge: COVID was reason for jail to go from books to tablets

Judge: COVID was reason for jail to go from books to tablets
May 31, 2021
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Officials at a Louisiana jail reacted reasonably to the COVID-19 pandemic by taking away printed books and giving inmates tablets on which they could read books instead, a federal judge has ruled.
Magistrate Judge Janis van Meerveld dismissed Terrebonne Parish jail inmate James Robert Pitre's lawsuit claiming that his constitutional rights were violated when his Bible and other books were taken.
The Bible was available on his tablet, and he got one of his printed Bibles back after one day, van Meerveld said.

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