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Blue Gardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:52 PM
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Lawsuit Targeting Bible Based Prison Program
Saw this in the Quad City Times. Thought I would share it with all of you. Posted it in GD but you'll never see it there.

http://www.qctimes.net/articles/2005/10/25/news/state/doc435db59389c3e121390292.txt

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Christian prison program subsidized by the state is discriminatory, giving preferential treatment to inmates who enroll, a lawyer for an advocacy group argued Monday.

Iowa prison officials hired Reston, Va.-based Prison Fellowship Ministries, a group founded by former Nixon aide Chuck Colson, to offer the program at the Newton Correctional Facility.

The Bible-based program, which also operates in Kansas, Minnesota and Texas, has been praised by President Bush, but lawyers for Americans United have said it calls into question the president’s faith-based initiative.
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 08:42 PM
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1. Thanks for putting this here - hope they win their lawsuit
But if they do drugRush will have 4 years of material.
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