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Eighth Circuit Holds State Funding of Iowa Faith-Based Prison Unconstitutional
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2008
by Michael Rigby
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2008, page 30
On December 3, 2007, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals held that partial state funding of a religious-based prison program in Iowa was unconstitutional.
Filed under:
Injunctions,
Telephones,
Telephone Rates,
Required Religious Programming,
Proselytizing.
Location:
Iowa.
The Court further held that InnerChange, a division of Prison Fellowship Ministries, was not obligated to repay $1.5 million it has ...
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