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4 Bahai’s Imprisoned for Educating Youth Released from Iran Prison

4 Bahai’s Imprisoned for Educating Youth Released from Iran Prison


clock icon 29 May 2015
author icon Alison Lesley


After four years of imprisonment for educating Baha'is, four faculty members of the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) were finally released. In May 2011, a coordinated raid of Baha’i...

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AZ Inmates Win Status to Fight for Native Hawaiian Religion

AZ Inmates Win Status to Fight for Native Hawaiian Religion


clock icon 10 Oct 2014
author icon Alison Lesley


Stating their religion is vital to their rehabilitation, prisoners in AZ have filed a class-action lawsuit. A few days ago, the Judge Leslie Kobayashi awarded over one hundred Arizonian inmates the class-action...

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New Book “Down in the Chapel” Studies Religious Life in Jail

New Book “Down in the Chapel” Studies Religious Life in Jail


clock icon 15 May 2014
author icon Alison Lesley


Writer Joshua Dubler has published a book, Down in the Chapel, about “the most religiously ecelctic sliver of real estate in the history of the world”—a prison chapel. Over six years, Dubler...

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Federal Appeals Court Overturns Dismissal of Wiccan Prisoner Lawsuit

Federal Appeals Court Overturns Dismissal of Wiccan Prisoner Lawsuit


clock icon 16 Aug 2013
author icon Alison Lesley


California prisons, like many across the United States offer their prisoners solace in the form of weekly meetings or prayer services to serve Catholic, Jewish, Protestant, Muslim and Native American...

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