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Muslims Entitled to Prayer Oils
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1992, page 6
Three Michigan state prisoners at the Jackson State Prison filed suit under section 1983 claiming that a policy banning all use of prayer oils to Muslim prisoners violated their first amendment rights. The district court appointed counsel to represent the prisoners. Both parties moved for summary judgement and the district …
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More from this issue:
- Status of Reformatory Crowding Litigation, by Ed Mead
- Grievance Standards Changed
- Overcrowding and Violence in Washington State, by Ed Mead
- Parolees Have a Right to Bodily Privacy
- Transferred Con Has Right to Books of Sending State
- Prisoners Have Right to Privacy in Their Mail
- Medication Must Be Delivered in Timely Manner
- Contempt Order Appropriate for Consent Decree Violation
- Expungement of Infraction Reversed
- Federal Prisoners Must Exhaust Habeas Before Filing Suit
- State Judges Can Be Sued for Injunctive Relief in Federal Court
- Parole Officers Can Be Sued
- BOP Prisoners Must Exhaust Administrative Remedies
- Washington Smoking Suit Dismissed
- Muslims Entitled to Prayer Oils
- Gay Prisoner Entitled to Participate in Religious Services
- Resistance at Lexington, by Laura Whitehorn
- Editorial, by Ed Mead
- Committee Formed to Defend Abimael Guzman
- Walla Walla News
- Perotti Needs Help, by John Perotti
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