Native American Sweat Lodges In Prisons

Accommodating the vast array of religious ritual requests from prisoners, now that the Supreme Court has upheld RLUIPA, will be a continuing challenge for correctional officials. Saturday's New York Times carried an interesting in-depth description of one accommodation that seems to be working-- the Native American Sweat Lodge at northern Connecticut's MacDougall-Walker Correctional Facility. Many states, though, are still concerned about the security problems posed by sweat lodges.