Religious Rights for Pagan Prisoners
Patrick McCollum doesn’t look like a Pagan. Although he does wear a large pentacle, he dresses conservatively in dark slacks and a button down shirt, even at a Pagan festival where flowing capes and horned headdresses are perfectly in style. We met on a panel at Pantheacon, an annual gathering in San Jose in mid February, and continued our conversation over breakfast. A slim, soft spoken man with short hair and neatly trimmed mustache, McCollum looks more like a southern preacher or an off-duty military lawyer.
And in fact, he is a preacher and he battles to uphold the law. As Director of the National Correctional Chaplaincy Directors Association, he fights every day for the religious rights of prisoners—Pagans, but also other minority religions.
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