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Via Politico:

The Indiana federal prison that houses so-called “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh is defying a court order to allow Muslim inmates group prayer five times a day, the American Civil Liberties Union says.

Lindh’s ACLU lawyers petitioned a federal judge Wednesday to hold in contempt the warden of the high-security prison where Lindh is serving.

The petition argues that following the court’s order in January the warden implemented a policy that only allows prisoners to pray as a group three times a day, and with changing prayer schedules, it will be only twice by late April.

A March bulletin from the prison warden established three times per day that inmates can pray together, no more than 10 at a time, in 30-minute slots. The bulletin says those engaged in unauthorized group prayers could be disciplined.

Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson ruled in January for Lindh, an American who was convicted of fighting for the Taliban, that a prison policy banning daily group prayer violated the First Amendment’s freedom of religion clause, but the court said some less-restrictive security restrictions could be allowable.