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I would like to see a copy of this judgment.
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Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 12:20
AM
Subject: InnerChange decision
I don't have a link, and I don't want to clog all your
boxes with a massive attachment, but I just received from the New York Times a
sweeping opinion from the Southern District of Iowa, striking down Prison
Fellowship's state funded program in the Iowa prisons. Americans United
(quoted below) claims a massive victory. And on a very quick skim, I
think that's right. The program sounds very similar to the proposed
federal program we were debating a few days ago. Of course I assume that
Iowa and Prison Fellowship will appeal.
Douglas Laycock
University of Texas Law
School
727 E. Dean Keeton St.
Austin, TX 78705
512-232-1341
(phone)
512-471-6988
(fax)
The court
just handed down the InnerChange decision. It is 140 pages long and
permanently enjoins the program so long as it is funded by government
dollars. It also orders recoupment, which means payments back from
Prison Fellowship Ministries to the state, of more than $1.5 million.
(Those monies have to go back to the funds within the prison system to
benefit inmates, from which they were taken.) We havent read the
decision yet, obviously, and will send a summary when we have. But it
is obviously a massive victory.
______________________________________________
Richard B. Katskee
Assistant Legal
Director
Americans United for Separation of Church and
State
518 C St., NE
Washington, DC
20002
Tel: 202-466-3234, x210
Fax: 202-466-2587
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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