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NY Times
June 3, 2006
Neela Banerjee

Federal judge in Iowa rules Charles Colson prison program violated the separation of church and state

Says program used money from taxpayers to pay for a religious program that gave special privileges to inmates who accepted evangelical Christian teachings and terms

A federal judge in Iowa ruled Friday that a state-financed evangelical Christian program to help inmates re-enter society was "pervasively sectarian" and violated the separation of church and state...

The case was filed more than three years ago by Americans United for Separation of Church and State against the Iowa Department of Corrections and InnerChange Freedom Initiative, an organization affiliated with Prison Fellowship Ministries. Prison Fellowship was founded by Charles W. Colson, a close ally of President Bush and an influential evangelical who went to prison for his role in the Watergate cover-up.

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