ADL to protest ‘Christian only’ prison
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009Should a private company get the franchise to run a Christian-only prison? Talk about issues tailor made for the Anti-Defamation League.
The issue centers on a non-profit prison ministry called Corrections Concepts Inc., which wants to build a privately run, all-Christian prison in Wakita, Oklahoma.
The facility is meant for inmates nearing the end of their terms; to get in, they’d have to agree to participate fully in the new prison’s programs, including religious education and worship, and the new facility would employ only Christians.
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Steve Freeman, legal director for the ADL, says there have been religious wings in existing prisons, but never an all-Christian facility; using government money for the all-Christian facility would violate both the U.S. Constitution and Oklahoma’s “Blaine amendment,” he said. (more…)