The six inmates from a New York prison will get to watch Monday’s solar eclipse after they filed a lawsuit claiming the prison’s implementation of a lockdown violated their religious liberties.
Last week, the six men being held at the Woodbourne Correctional Facility in New York filed a lawsuit against the state corrections department after 23 state prisons in the path of totality announced they would be locking down the facilities reportedly due to concerns about security breaches.
The six plaintiffs’ lawyers said they had come to an agreement with the state and would allow the six inmates to view the solar eclipse due to their “sincerely held religious beliefs,” the Associated Press reported.
The men claimed they were a Seventh Day Adventist, a Muslim, a Baptist, and an
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