Prison book purging

Well, let me take a crack at possible reasonable thinking.

Prisons are (typically) government institutions covered by the establishment clause of the constitution and at the same time, the custodian of the people inside. Someone might argue, therefore that there is a need to provide appropriate faith resources such as hymnals, scripture, liturgical texts. A theological text might or might not be appropriate depending on how anti-social or positive it is. The government should not provide evangelical screeds and needn't provide every theological resource, so maybe someone thought they would provide only interpretive or exegetic works that don't include anti-social or divisive conclusions. This might be done less efficiently negatively (look for offensive or anti-social messages in all religious books) than positively (have a commission select a broad cross-section of theology with a positive message.

That said, I'm baffled, too. But it has been my experience that even in government what sounds ridiculous is usually at least plausible if you know the reasons behind the decision.

Just setting all of us up for the mark of the beast.

It'll start in the prison system first.

"Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them; those who are being tortured, as though you yourselves were being tortured" (Heb 13:3).

David, you struggle to understand how this could happen. It happened because too many of us forget that prisoners are part of the Body of Christ too.

Peace.