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Counsel Should Be Appointed in Religious Suit
Loaded on April 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1992, page 8
Counsel Should Be Appointed In Religious SuitA Muslim prisoner in Nebraska sought to send a $2.00 donation to a Mosque in Lincoln, which prison officials refused to permit him to do. The practice of Zakah, a form of charity, is one of the 5 basic pillars of the Islamic ...
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- Feds Seek $2.2 Billion for Federal Prisons
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- Information on Visiting Needed
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- Test for Appointed Counsel on 1983 Suits
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