You can’t read the bible in public schools but you can read it in public prisons. Funny that.
Well, call me a creative thinking evangelist... I see how we can get the bible read very much in schools.
Make God cool. God is already cool. We just need to tell the listening world the story about how. For just one example: Let child centered bible memes out of the Christian family store ghetto.
Anyhow getting back to what you said. Having bibles in prisons is better than not having them in prisons. There could be entire prisoner-centered evangelistic curricula. The closer that penal science gets to the gospel, the better it will do at eliminating recidivism AND cruelty.