National Briefing | Plains: South Dakota: Ceremonial Tobacco Is Approved for Indian Inmates

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A federal judge has ruled in a lawsuit by two prisoners that the state’s prison system’s ban on tobacco in religious ceremonies substantially burdens American Indian inmates’ religious rights.read more

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