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Denial of Nation of Islam Literature Unconstitutional
Loaded on March 15, 2003
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2004, page 16
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Reading Materials,
Mootness,
Qualified Immunity,
Supervisory Liability,
Publications/Books,
Religious Property.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
by David M. Reutter
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that prison officials' refusal to allow prisoners to receive Nation of Islam literature was unconstitutional, but prison officials were entitled to qualified immunity from money damages for their illegal actions. Pennsylvania prisoners Richard X. Sutton, Robert X. Wise, and ...
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