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Scientology Treatment Program for Prisoners Funded by Feds

Title: Scientology Treatment Program for Prisoners Funded by Feds
Date: Monday, 22 January 2007
Publisher: Boston University School of Public Health
Main source: jointogether.org

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Federal tax dollars are helping to pay for a controversial addiction-treatment program for prisoners in New Mexico based on Scientology precepts, the Wall Street Journal reported Jan. 19. The Second Chance program is billed as an alternative treatment program for nonviolent offenders and uses the principals of Scientology – such as using saunas, diet, massage and vitamins to purge the body of toxins – to fight addiction. In New Mexico, 24 of the state's 84 district judges have referred a total ... [Read the rest at jointogether.org]