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Say hallelujah for new faith-based prison scholarship

By Douglas A. Berman

I have been amazed and disappointed by how little scholarly attention has been given to the faith-based prison movement.  Thus, I say hallelujah for this new piece from Lynn Branham appearing on SSRN.  (Music fans can listen to Jeff Buckley or Tracy Chapman if they'd like a melodious hallelujah.)  The article is titled "'The Devil is in the Details': A Continued Dissection of the Constitutionality of Faith-Based Prison Units," and here is the abstract: Faith-based prison units can afford prisoners who choose to be housed in them the concentrated and sustained spiritual nourishment that they believe they need to grow spiritually or in other ways. But critics claim that these units abridge the Establishment Clause.  This Article debunks two of the arguments most frequently asserted against the constitutionality of faith-based units...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 25, 2008 (boomark / email).