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| Op-Ed: Pushing religion in prisons |
| By St. Petersburg Times |
| Published: 01/08/2008 |
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FLORIDA - The question of how far prisons may go in exposing inmates to a religious message before violating church-state separation was answered recently by a federal appellate court in St. Louis. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that the prison system in Iowa was promoting religious indoctrination by supporting an evangelical Christian program. The ruling declared that no future state funding may be used to underwrite such programs, and it raised warnings over the added comforts and privileges that inmate participants had received. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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