On ne suggère pas d'appliquer la sentence à des criminels violents, mais la possibilité est réelle. Vous avez le choix entre le séjour en prison ou participer au culte à chaque semaine. Constitutionnel ou pas? Only in America?
"The city judge of Bay Minette will give offenders the choice beginning Tuesday, as part of Operation Restore Our Community or "ROC," according to WKRG News. If someone goes for the church option, they have to attend every Sunday for a year and check in weekly with the pastor and the police department before their case can be dismissed.
Bay Minette Police Chief Mike Rowland said the program would save the town the $75 a day it costs to house an inmate. And, he said, "it was agreed by all the pastors that at the core of the crime problem was the erosion of family values and morals. We have children raising children and parents not instilling values in young people."
"You show me somebody who falls in love with Jesus, and I'll show you a person who won't be a problem to society," he told WKRG.
"This policy is blatantly unconstitutional," Olivia Turner, executive director of the ACLU in Alabama, told the Mobile Press-Register. "It violates one basic tenet of the Constitution, namely that government can't force participation in religious activity."
Rowland responded that the policy doesn't violate the separation of church and state because the offender can choose whichever church he wants. Rowland also noted that non-Christians can choose their own place of worship, though the Press-Register pointed out that no mosques or synagogues are participating in the program because there are none in the area."
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/alabama_town_offers_church_or_jail_sentencing_choi.php?ref=fpb
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