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Ban on Separatist Religious Publication
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2005, page 26
Ban on Separatist Religious Publication Reversed by Eighth Circuit
Filed under:
Racial Discrimination,
RLUIPA,
Mail,
Publications/Books,
Denial of Religious Services,
Religious Property.
Location:
Missouri.
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court's grant of summary judgment to prison officials related to the refusal to deliver a religious publication they deemed to be racially inflammatory
Missouri Department of Corrections (MDOC) prisoner Michael Murphy was …
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