Recipe for Disaster Letting an inmate keep a copy of a book on home-made explosive devices is bad for prison security, a federal appeals court says.
Walter Tormasi, serving a life term at New Jersey State Prison in Trenton for the 1996 shooting death of his mother, Frances, outside of their Bridgewater home, alleged that jail officials illegally confiscated his copy of The Anarchist Cookbook, by William Powell, which describes in detail how to make explosive devices, and then improperly disciplined him.
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