Prisons

Author: Staff Writer Source: Google News Wire Service: AP http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gQbvkJHpaJR6xF25XfRpe… Maryland is considering becoming one of the few states to allow condemned inmates to choose a clergy member...

Source: Belief Net Wire Service: AP http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2010/06/48-va-inmates-in-segregation-o.p… Nearly 50 Virginia prisoners are being held in perpetual isolation because they refuse to cut their hair, several for religious reasons. The...

Author: Richard Ford Source: Times Online http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article7145784.ece Inmates are converting to Islam in order to gain perks and the protection of powerful Muslim gangs, the Chief Inspector of Prisons warns today...

Author: Dena Potter Source: The Washington Post Wire Service: AP http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/07/AR20100… Kendall Gibson would seem to be one of Virginia's most dangerous prisoners. For more than 10 years he has...

Author: Dena Potter Source: The Washington Post Wire Service: AP http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/07/AR20100… Kendall Gibson would seem to be one of Virginia's most dangerous prisoners. For more than 10 years he has...

Author: Nicholas DeMarino Source: CBS4/Rawlins Daily Times Wire Service: AP http://cbs4denver.com/wireapnewswy/From.Baptist.to.2.1617249.html There's a Native American talking stick mounted on the wall, a series of volumes about Scientology on the...

Author: Valerie Taliman Source: Indian Country Today http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/home/content/89262307.html The “listening session” held by the U.S. State Department on March 16 at the University of New Mexico Law School drew more than 100 Native...

Author: Mary Garrigan Source: Rapid City Journal http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/lifestyles/article_a891c09c-29ae-11df-b… If the only thing you know about the Asatru religion is that a convicted killer lost his legal bid for a plastic...

Author: Staff Writer Source: Beliefnet/Religion News Service http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2010/02/wiccan-chaplain-battles-for-st.p… A volunteer Wiccan chaplain is headed to a federal appeals court in an attempt to get California to hire prison clergy...

Author: David L. Hudson Jr. Source: First Amendment Center http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22566 An Illinois prison inmate’s claim that officials violated his religious-liberty rights by allowing a female staff member to search him has...