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TARPLEY v. ALLEN COUNTY, INDIANA

No. 01-2982.

312 F.3d 895 (2002)

Wesley R. TARPLEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ALLEN COUNTY, INDIANA, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 10, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wesley R. Tarpley (submitted), Columbus, OH, pro se.

Laura L. Reuss (submitted), Beers, Mallers, Backs & Salin, Fort Wayne, IN, for Allen County, Indiana and Allen County Bd. of Commissioners.

John O. Feighner (submitted), Haller & Colvin, Fort Wayne, IN, for Henry E. Dill, James Herman and Joseph M. Squadrito.

Before BAUER, POSNER, and DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judges.

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...

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