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Forced AA/NA for Parolee Defeats Qualified Immunity

Loaded on June 15, 2002 published in Prison Legal News June, 2002, page 26
Filed under: Parole, Qualified Immunity, Mental Health, Drug Treatment/Rehab, Required Religious Programming. Location: Wisconsin.
A Wisconsin federal district court has held that officials are not entitled to qualified immunity when they require atheist parolees to participate in religious based substance abuse programs. John Bausch, a former prisoner and parolee, filed an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the former and present secretaries of ...

 

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