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BOP Cancels Solicitation of Proposal for Single-Faith Program
Loaded on June 15, 2007
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2007, page 26
On October 26, 2006, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced that it was canceling its solicitation of proposals for single-faith, faith-based residential re-entry programs. The move came after a lawsuit was filed by the Madison, Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), which is ?a national association of freethinkers, atheists ...
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