Probe of Religious Discrimination in Prisons Includes Faith-Based Ministries
Anne Farris reports on the Roundtable of Religion and Social Welfare Policy:
Religious discrimination in prisons, including the role of faith-based rehabilitative programs, was the subject of a briefing last week before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which is examining the topic as part of its annual report to Congress and President George W. Bush to be submitted later this year.
The commission, an independent and bipartisan agency charged with monitoring federal civil rights enforcement, heard testimony from 11 experts including a prison warden, the vice president of the world’s largest faith-based organization serving prisons, a lawyer who has successfully sued faith-based prison programs, and a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) official who has previously worked for a religious prison program . . .
See our earlier post reporting on the statement issued by Americans U. for Separation of Church and State.