Inmates at a New York Prison Allowed to Watch Eclipse After Legal Action

Inmates at New York state’s Woodbourne Correctional Facility will get to view Monday’s solar eclipse after all, lawyers for the inmates who sued over the matter said Thursday.

Six inmates at the medium-security men’s prison in Woodbourne in upstate New York sued the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision over not being allowed to view the eclipse.

The inmates argued that denying them the right to see the total eclipse would violate their religious rights, and that they view it as a religious event.

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