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MN: Former Shakopee prison chaplain settles lawsuit with state after criticizing Chuck Colson's InnerChange Freedom Initiative

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Former Shakopee prison chaplain settles lawsuit with state A Presbyterian minister says she was fired after she criticized an evangelical Christian program used in prisons. By ROSE FRENCH, Star Tribune Minneapolis Star Tribune- http://www.startribune.com/local/south/117323558.html March 3, 2011 A chaplain at the Shakopee women's prison who says she was fired for being too critical of a controversial evangelical Christian program has reached a settlement in her lawsuit against the state. Under the agreement, Presbyterian minister Kristine Holmgren will get $227,500. The program she criticized, InnerChange Freedom Initiative, is still being used in two Minnesota state prisons. The Department of Corrections defended the program's effectiveness and said there are no immediate plans to dismantle it, despite the settlement reached this week...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 06, 2011 (boomark / email).