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| Former inmate sues prison over ban on Satanism |
| By abqjournal.com- Katy Barnitz |
| Published: 11/14/2016 |
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A former inmate who practices Satanism has filed a lawsuit alleging that prison employees violated her constitutional rights by confiscating her religious materials and prohibiting her from engaging in rituals with other inmates. Monica Lujan argues in a civil rights lawsuit that Corrections Corporation of America and three of its employees, along with a state Department of Corrections worker, violated her right to religious freedom, which is protected by both the state and U.S. constitutions. CCA runs the New Mexico Women’s Correctional Facility in Grants, where Lujan was housed. “Inmates do not shed their civil rights at the prison door,” Lujan says in her lawsuit, which was filed last week in state District Court. Read More. |
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