Gabriel Galanda, an attorney and board member at Washington state-based prisoner advocacy group Huy, said that research has found that sweat lodge ceremonies are an effective way to prevent Native American inmates from returning to crime. “Sweat lodge works in rehabilitating Native prisoners,” he said. “They should be going into sweat lodges whenever and wherever possible.” Galanda said that since sweat lodges became more common in the U.S. after the civil rights era, detractors’ claims that the ceremonies risked prison security have been unfounded. “Security concerns can be overcome by best practices,” he said. “And they have never been borne out.”
Posted on: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 23:22:10 +0000
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