Legal Opinion
Williams v. Lara
Texas Supreme Court
Decided June 28, 2001No. 99-0273PublishedCited by 687 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hankinson
This case involves a dispute over a religious-education program in a Tarrant County jail facility. Our inquiry focuses on the Chaplain’s Education Unit (CEU), a separate unit within the Tarrant County Corrections Center (TCCC), where inmates can volunteer for instruction in a curriculum approved by the sheriff and director of chaplaincy at the jail' as consistent with the sheriffs and chaplain’s views of Christianity. Ruth Maree Lara and Lee Huff, former inmates at the TCCC, and Dr. Ronald Flowers, a Tarrant County resident, sued Tarrant County and its sheriff, David Williams 1 (collectively,…
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