Wiccan chaplains on prison payroll
Reverend Virginia Powell High Priestess (L) and her daughter in law Ashleigh Powell participate in a Wicca Lunar ritual in the temple at the Witch School October 25, 2006 in Hoopeston, Illinois. | Getty
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Posted: 02/20/2013
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A Wiccan chaplin may go on the payroll in California. A federal appeals court has given new life to a decades-long battle by Wiccan inmates for their own full-time chaplain.
California prisons now hire chaplains and spiritual leaders to serve Catholic, Muslim, Jewish, Protestant and Native American inmates.
The appeals court says Wiccans are making a compelling argument they need a chaplin too. A lower court is being ordered to reconsider the case
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