Wednesday, May 22 2013 8:20 PM EDT2013-05-23 00:20:52 GMT
The Lee County Sheriff's Department is now working with the Albany Crime stoppers. The Lee County Sheriff's Department asked to join the Albany Crime-stoppers program. The Sheriff's Department believesMore >>
The Lee County Sheriff's Department is now working with the Albany Crime stoppers. The Lee County Sheriff's Department asked to join the Albany Crime-stoppers program. The Sheriff's Department believes it will be a helpful tool in closing some cases.
Wednesday, May 22 2013 8:08 PM EDT2013-05-23 00:08:36 GMT
How would you save your pets life if a tornado touched down here in South Georgia? Tuesday's tornado ripped through Oklahoma taking 24 lives, and today families are still searching for their belongingsMore >>
How would you save your pets life if a tornado touched down here in South Georgia? Tuesday's tornado ripped through Oklahoma taking 24 lives, and today families are still searching for their belongings and pets that were lost during the storm More >>
Wednesday, May 22 2013 6:43 PM EDT2013-05-22 22:43:09 GMT
Some princesses and super heroes made a stop in Albany Wednesday to visit young patients at Phoebe Putney Memorial hospital. Spiderman, Ariel and a few others made rounds to the children on the pediatricMore >>
Some princesses and super heroes made a stop in Albany Wednesday to visit young patients at Phoebe Putney Memorial hospital. More >>
Wednesday, May 22 2013 6:40 PM EDT2013-05-22 22:40:51 GMT
Students and teachers at a south Georgia school dedicated a special spot to a little girl killed in a school bus crash two weeks ago. Several other Pataula Charter Academy students were injured in thatMore >>
Students and teachers at Pataula Charter Academy dedicated a park bench on the playground of the school where 10-year-old Jordyn Doughtie was a student.More >>
Wednesday, May 22 2013 6:31 PM EDT2013-05-22 22:31:56 GMT
Jurors heard closing arguments Wednesday afternoon in the aggravated assault trial of three South Georgia men charged with beating a man in the parking lot of a northwest Albany club. Prosecutors sayMore >>
Prosecutors say three men beat a man in an Albany club parking lot so fiercely they fractured his skull.More >>
June 3, 2005
Mitchell County-- The people behind the locked gates at Autry Prison aren't free, but they still have the right to freedom of religion. Douglas T. Simmons, a Clinical Chaplain Program Director says, "Every inmate that makes a request to worship any particular denomination or any particular religion we try to accommodate them the best we can."
The Supreme Court has upheld an unanimous decision brought on by a satanist and a professed witch, saying that while prisoners are inside the prison they should be able to worship whatever religion they want to worship.
Worship that the plaintiffs in that Ohio case were denied. Chaplain Douglas Simmons says that's not a problem at Autry State prison in Mitchell County. "Consistency is the one thing that you've got to have you have to treat every religion the same, as far as their request within the limit of the law."
At Calhoun State Prison, about 100 prisoners take part in a Faith And Character program that allows them to explore any religion. Chaplain Simmons says it's important to give inmates that kind of opportunity. "My job is to make sure that every inmate is allowed to have whatever the state will allow him to have as far as his religious needs."
Needs that may vary from prisoner to prisoner, but needs the state must help them meet. The only way wardens can deny a prisoner the right to express his religious beliefs is if they can prove it will be a disruption.
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