The Bureau of Prisons Yields to a Chaplain’s Conscience
The bureau relents in a stalemate over pepper spray.
A prison chaplain put President Donald Trump’s pledge to protect religious freedom to the test and won a longshot fight against the Bureau of Prisons.
The BOP reversed an order requiring the Rev. Ronald Apollo, a military and federal prison chaplain for more than 25 years, to carry pepper spray while on the job. This month, the BOP announced that chaplains will no longer be required to carry the spray.
Apollo is the the head chaplain of FCI Bennettsville, a medium-security federal correctional institute in South Carolina. When the BOP ordered all of its prison workers
