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Saturday, June 03, 2006
Trial Court Enjoins Unconstitutional Iowa Religion-in-Prisons Program
Marty Lederman
Judge Robert Pratt of the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Iowa yesterday issued a judgment and a 140-page opinion declaring unconstitutional the State of Iowa's establishment of a rehabilitation program operated in the state prison system by the InnerChange Freedom Initiative, a substidiary of Chuck Colson's Prison Fellowship Ministries.