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Partial solar eclipse seen near Monument to Marshal Georgy Zhukov on Manezhnaya Square in Russia October 25, 2022.. Igor

Partial solar eclipse seen near Monument to Marshal Georgy Zhukov on Manezhnaya Square in Russia October 25, 2022. (Igor’ Ivanko/Kommersant/Sipa USA) (Sipa via AP Images)

A group of inmates who want to see the upcoming solar eclipse on April 8 have sued the New York Department of Corrections in federal court, alleging that a recently-imposed ban on inmates from the yard at an upstate facility during the rare celestial event is a violation of their respective religious freedoms.

The plaintiffs are Jeremy Zielinski, Travis Hudson, Bruce Moses, Oscar Nunez, Jean Marc Desmarat, and David Haigh and all are inmates at the Woodbourne Correctional Facility in upstate New York. For plaintiffs Hudson and Hugh, a Baptist and Seventh-day Adventist respectively, they say viewing the solar eclipse is tied right into their faith. In the complaint they note that in the Bible, it was a solar eclipse that may have passed over Christ himself when he was crucified, according to passages in Mark and Luke.

Hudson says he regularly attended church in Lake Placid and attended prayer walks before he was incarcerated. By viewing the eclipse, it is a way to “find the Spirit of God” in natural events, he says. Hugh feels similarly, telling the court that he was once a member of the Campus Crusade for Christ at Penn State and Purdue Universities and now that he is in imprisoned, he attends church services within the facility weekly.

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