Read this helpful blog post from FindLaw <\/a>and ponder the question, was there a Jewish crime wave in the mid-2000s? Or are the numbers on religious affiliation in prison really unreliable?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ninth Circuit Court has partly upheld the Wiccan challenge (headed by volunteer prison chaplain Patrick McCollum) to California’s “Five Faiths” policy for who gets paid prison chaplains and who does not. Read this helpful blog post from FindLaw and ponder the question, was there a Jewish crime wave in the mid-2000s? 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Yes, the headline says that it was about the image of Islam, but apparently the 500 \"scholars and religious leaders\" included some Pagans, including the Pagan chaplain of the state prison system.One of them, M.\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":862,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=862","url_meta":{"origin":5265,"position":4},"title":"A Wiccan Prison Chaplain Responds","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"April 25, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"A Wiccan prison chaplain writes,Because Normal Ordinary Responsible People (NORPs) cannot conceive of committing horrendous acts themselves, we find it difficult to think or believe that there are people who commit horrendous acts willingly. We struggle to understand the incomprehensible. 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