Showing posts with label Prison Chaplains. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prison Chaplains. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Volunteer Prison Minister's Challenge to Requirements for Addressing LGBTQ Inmates Is Rejected

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In Kuenzi v. Reese ,  (D OR, Oct. 28, 2024), an Oregon federal district court rejected 1st Amendment challenges to an Oregon prison system r...
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

10th Circuit: Jail Violated Free Speech Rights of Volunteer Minister

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In Jarrard v. Sheriff of Polk County ,  (11th Cir., Sept. 16, 2024), the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals held that Georgia jail officials...
Saturday, February 03, 2024

Questions of Fact Remain in Challenge to Application Process for Prison Chaplaincy Supervisor

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 In Bridges v. Prince Georges County, Maryland ,  (D MD, Feb. 1, 2024), a Maryland federal district court refused to grant summary judgment ...
Tuesday, May 02, 2023

Clergy Sue Federal Penitentiary To Obtain Physical Contact With Death Row Inmates

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Suit was filed last week in an Indiana federal district court by two ministers who regularly visit death row inmates in a federal penitentia...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

11th Circuit: Muslim Prison Chaplain Loses Suit Over Exclusions From Execution Chamber

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In Maisonet v. Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections ,  (11th Cir., Sept. 16, 2022), the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals affirm...
Friday, July 08, 2022

Texas Must Grant Execution Chamber Religious Accommodations

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  AP reports that on July 5 the federal district court for the Southern District of Texas in Gonzales v. Collier  issued a temporary injunc...
Wednesday, September 08, 2021

Supreme Court Grants Review On Role Of Spiritual Advisor In Execution Chamber

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In Ramirez v. Collier , (5th Cir., Sept. 6, 2021), the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, by a vote of 2-1, affirmed a Texas federal distric...
Sunday, May 30, 2021

Suit Challenges County's Limiting Jail Chaplain Position to Those With Christian Beliefs

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Suit was filed last week in a Maryland federal district court by a Muslim volunteer jail chaplain challenging the requirements imposed by Pr...
Monday, May 10, 2021

Archdiocese Sues For in-Person Access To Inmates

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The Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee last week filed suit in state court against the Wisconsin Department of Corrections challenging its co...
Sunday, April 25, 2021

Texas Will Now Allow Spiritual Advisor In Execution Chamber With Prisoner

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  AP and Texas Tribune  report that Texas prisons will now allow any inmate being executed to have his personal religious adviser with him ...
Friday, February 05, 2021

Imam Sues Alabama Over Exclusion of Clergy From Execution Chamber

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Yesterday a Muslim imam filed suit in an Alabama federal district court challenging prison rules that preclude him from being present in the...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Supreme Court GVRs Chaplain-In-Execution-Chamber Case

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Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a dispute over execution procedures, granted review, vacated the judgment below and remanded the case ...
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Jail's "God-Pod" Program Violates Establishment Clause

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 In Young v. Newton , (ED VA, Oct. 16, 2020), a Virginia federal district court, while rejecting a number of claims by Muslim inmates, held ...
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Clergy Cannot Get Inmates' Executions Delayed Because of COVID Fears

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In Hartkemeyer v. Barr ,  (SD IN, July 14, 2020), an Indiana federal district court refused to delay the execution of prisoners in two separ...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Supreme Court Stays Execution Of Prisoner Denied A Chaplain In the Execution Chamber

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The U.S. Supreme Court today granted a stay of execution pending its decision on whether to grant review in Gutierrez v. Saenz.  Ruben Gutie...

5th Circuit Upholds Texas Prison Chaplain Execution Protocol

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In  Gutierrez v. Saenz ,  (5th Cir., June 12, 2020), the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a stay of execution that had been granted...
Friday, November 08, 2019

New Stay of Execution For Buddhist Inmate Over Access To Chaplain

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In Murphy v. Collier , (SD TX, Nov. 7, 2019), a Texas federal district court stayed the execution of Patrick Murphy because of differential ...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Arkansas Supreme Court OKs Limits On Leaders of Prison Religious Services

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In Mutaqim v. Lay ,  (AR Sup. Ct., June 6, 2019), the Arkansas Supreme Court rejected challenges by a Nation of Islam inmate to two separate...
Saturday, April 06, 2019

Inmate's Suit Seeks Imam In Execution Chamber

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In the wake of two widely publicized U.S. Supreme Court actions involving similar issues in Alabama and Texas, suit was filed this week by a...
Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Another Death Row Inmate Denied Chaplain of His Choice During Execution

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Last month in a widely publicized decision the U.S. Supreme Court  vacated the the stay of execution that had been granted the day before by...