Federal Bureau of Prisons
Federal Bureau of Prisons loosens limits on Muslim inmates’ prayer
By Aysha Khan — December 18, 2019
(RNS) — The agency has issued new national guidelines recommending accommodation of group prayer for Muslim prisoners after a Muslim inmate’s lawsuit challenging restrictions at a Kentucky prison.
Federal prisons agree inmates can be ‘humanists’
By Kimberly Winston — July 28, 2015
(RNS) Under the settlement, the Federal Bureau of Prisons agreed to acknowledge humanism as a “worldview” and allow its adherents the same rights and recognition enjoyed by inmates of other faiths.
Interfaith activists call solitary confinement immoral, ineffective
By Adelle M. Banks — May 13, 2015
(RNS) “Once you’ve stood inside the cell and heard the sounds of an actual solitary confinement unit echoing in your very being, it becomes very hard to forget or to ignore,” said the Rev. Kate Edwards, a Zen Buddhist in Madison, Wis.
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