Newton Prison to End Religious Program that Prompted Legal Fight

February 25, 2008

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Chicago Tribune

Wire Service: AP

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-ia-newtonprisonprogr,0,5799706.story

State officials say they will end a Bible-based treatment program at Newton prison that has been the subject of a five-year court battle.

The Iowa Department of Corrections has notified Prison Fellowship Ministries in Virginia that the program, called the InnerChange Freedom Initiative, will end by mid-March, prison spokesman Fred Scaletta said in a copyright story in The Des Moines Register.