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Civil Rights Commission Testimony

Click on the following links to see remarks prepared for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ meeting on prisoners’ religious rights on February 8, 2008.

Abu Qadir Al-Amin, Imam, San Francisco Muslim Community Center

Carolyn Atkins, Warden, Maryland Correctional Institution-Jessup

Frank Cilluffo, Director, Homeland Security Policy Institute, The George Washington University

Lane Dilg, Staff Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief
(modified testimony filed with the Civil Rights Commission and posted here March 6, 2008)

Gary Friedman, Chairman, Jewish Prisoner Services International

Alex Luchenitser, Senior Litigation Counsel, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State

Patrick McCollum, Volunteer Wiccan Chaplain, California Department of Corrections

Steven T. McFarland, Director, Task Force For Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, Office of the Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice

Patrick Nolan, Vice President, Prison Fellowship
(modified testimony filed with the Civil Rights Commission and posted here March 6, 2008)

Joseph Pryor, Chaplaincy Administrator for the Federal Bureau of Prisons

Gregory Saathoff, Executive Director, Critical Incident Analysis Group, University of Virginia