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Fourth Circuit Says Virginia May Require Muslim Prisoner to Purchase Prayer Oil From Vendor Also Selling Pork and “Idols”
Loaded on Sept. 1, 2022
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2022, page 48
Filed under:
Food/Commissary (Private Prisons),
Religious Freedom Restoration Act,
Religious Practices.
Location:
Virginia.
by Matt Clarke
On February 1, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that the Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC) did not violate the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc, et seq., by requiring a Muslim prisoner to purchase prayer ...
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