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Religious Standards Applied
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1993, page 8
Gary Bear is an Iowa state prisoner. He is part Native American and sought to participate in Native American Religion (NAR) ceremonies at the Iowa Penitentiary, but was prohibited from doing so by the prison's NAR consultant because he did not have a Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) enrollment number. …
Filed under:
Settlements,
Consent Decrees,
Religious Freedom,
Denial of Religious Services,
Religion Defined.
Location:
Iowa.
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