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Compelled Attendance at AA/NA Violates Establishment Clause
Loaded on May 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2002, page 24
Compelled Attendance At AA/NA Violates Establishment Clause
Filed under:
Disciplinary Litigation,
Mental Health,
Drug Treatment/Rehab,
Required Religious Programming.
Location:
Washington.
The Washington Court of Appeals has held that it violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment for the DOC to force a prisoner to attend AA/NA meetings as a part of its chemical dependency treatment program. However, because the petitioner in the ...
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