Wisconsin
Judge rules against Wisconsin prisons over visitation policy
A Wisconsin decide has dominated in opposition to the state jail system, saying its COVID-19 customer coverage that barred Catholic clergy from assembly with inmates for greater than a yr violated state legislation and the state structure’s assure of non secular freedom.
The Archdiocese of Milwaukee filed a lawsuit in 2021 demanding state corrections officers calm down COVID-19 protocols and permit ministers to go to inmates. The coverage was in place from March 13, 2020, till June 21, 2021.
Jefferson County Circuit Choose William Hue dominated in favor of the archdiocese, saying the Division of Corrections didn’t give correct consideration to non secular pursuits in denying them entry.