Written by Janet
The decision just down, a New Jersey prison inmate has won his lawsuit which once banned him from preaching in the prison where he is an inmate.
Howard Thompson Jr. is an inmate at the New Jersey State Prison and an ordained Pentecostal minister. He had been conducting weekly worship services until prison officials issued a 2007 ban on inmate preaching.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit on his behalf seeking to lift the ban on the grounds it restricted his religious freedom.
The settlement applies only to Thompson. The 45-year-old is serving a sentence of 30 years to life for felony murder and robbery.
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/ 11/30/2009He was shoving his beliefs down another prisoner’s throat, and that one sued, and one…..now he sued or I should say that ACLU did, and he now can start doing what he once did, preach shoving it down throats again.
Millie
/ 12/01/2009I believe prisons already have chaplains, don’t they? Why does he need to preach? I seriously doubt he’s been able to repent…this is just to improve his image…and the other prisoners are sick of preaching.