Evangelical Conversion-for-Parole Program Thwarted

By Rob Boston, Church and State. Posted August 28, 2006.

A Bush-funded prison initiative that fast-tracked parole for Christian converts has been swatted down in the federal courts.

The day after a federal court struck down a taxpayer-supported evangelical Christian program in an Iowa prison, Mark Earley, president of Prison Fellowship, issued a press statement. He was not pleased.

"The courts took God out of America's schools, now they are on the path to take God out of America's prisons," Earley groused.