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IA: Disobedient Priest banned from prison visits. He took notes which stirred up controversy.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Priest banned from prison visits He took notes which stirred up controversy Monday, 22 Feb 2010, 11:41 AM EST OMAHA, Nebraska (CNN) - Father Val Peter said he has had just about enough. The 75-year-old, and one-time director of Boys Town, visits inmates regularly. Tracey Dyess more frequently than most. "The only reason I do this is she reminds me of a Boys Town kid," said Father Peter. "She has no family except a grandma in Texas." Dyess was convicted of setting fire to a Griswold, Iowa home in March 2005, which killed two people. She has been in Iowa prisons for the last four years. Father Peter said he got in trouble at the Mitchellville Prison near Des Moines on a visit with Dyess. "The corrections officer says 'I'm sorry, you can't take those notes out,'" said Father Peter...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 23, 2010 (boomark / email).