Americans United sent a letter to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections yesterday warning against the town of Wakita's plan to create a privately run faith-based prison that would be staffed solely by Christians. From a press release :
The AU letter noted that the 8th U.S. Court of Appeals ruled against a similar religious program in Iowa in its 2007 Americans United v. Prison Fellowship Ministries decision.
“If the Department provides funding to Corrections Concepts’ prison,” Americans United attorneys insisted, “indoctrination will be the inevitable result, just as it was in Prison Fellowship Ministries. And, just as inevitably, the funding of such indoctrination will violate the Constitution.”
