InnerChange decision

[Paul Diamond]

I would like to see a copy of this judgment.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Douglas Laycock 
  To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics 
  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 haven't 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 
    katskee at au.org
     




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