TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Shawnee County has agreed to pay $75,000 to settle a lawsuit over a jail policy that bans inmates from receiving books and publications in the mail.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reported that county commissioners Ted Ensley, Shelly Buhler and Mary Thomas unanimously approved the settlement during their meeting Thursday.

The American Civil Liberties Union represented Vermont-based Prison Legal News in a lawsuit filed last year against the Shawnee County Commission and the director of the county’s corrections department. The suit contended that the ban violates the inmates’ constitutional rights to free speech and other civil rights.

With the settlement, the jail now will permit Prison Legal News and items such as subscription renewal letters and catalogs into the facility.