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Ill Treatment on Our Shores by Anne-Marie Cusac ( On October 24, 2001, Muhammed Butt died of a heart attack at the Hudson County Correctional Center in Kearny, New Jersey. Butt, a Pakistani national, was detained on September 19 by the FBI as a suspect connected with the September 11 …
Religious Discrimination, Unsanitary Food Suit Denied Summary Judgment by The United States District Court for the District of Columbia has partly granted, and mostly denied, the defendants' motions for summary judgment on a District of Columbia (D.C.) prisoner's claims that he was racially discriminated against by the defendants' arbitrary handling …
Article • March 15, 2002 • from PLN March, 2002
Third Circuit Holds PLRA Bars Claims for Compensatory Damages by Third Circuit Holds PLRA Bars Claims For Compensatory Damages by Matthew T. Clarke The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has held that although the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) barred a prisoner from recovering compensatory damages for violations of his …
New Retaliation Standard Defined by In a case of first impression, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has defined a prisoner's burden of proof in a retaliation claim. Prisoner Henry Rauser sued Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PDOC) officials after they retaliated against him for exercising his right to …
Texas Gives $2 Million to Proselytizing Prison Program by by Matthew T. Clarke The Texas Legislature appropriated an additional $1.5 million to expand the Interchange Freedom Initiative (IFI) to include prisoners who expect to be paroled to the DallasFort Worth area. Sponsored by Prison Fellowship Ministries, an organization founded by …
Tarrant County (Texas) Jail's 'God Pod' Unconstitutional by by Matthew T. Clarke The Texas Supreme Court has held that the Chaplain's Education Unit (CEU) at the Tarrant County Jail unconstitutionally violates the separation of church and state. In 1992, former Tarrant County (Texas) Sheriff David Williams initiated the CEU program, …
Race-Based Religious Policy Unconstitutional by The Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has held that prison officials' denial of Native American religious items to a non-Native American prisoner based solely upon his race violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Virginia prisoner Gary David Morrison, Jr., filed …
Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001
Federal Religious Freedom Law Passed by On July 27, 2000, Congress unanimously enacted Senate Bill 2869, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA), which was signed into law by president Clinton, as a public law 106-274. The bill passed congress in two weeks and tries to …
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
Wisconsin Ban on Crosses Struck Down by The court of appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that a Wisconsin prison rule banning crosses unless it was attached to a rosary violated the First amendment rights of Protestants. This is the latest installment in a long running lawsuit over the Wisconsin …
Race-Based Religious Policy Violates Equal Protection Clause by A federal district court in Virginia held that a race-based prison policy preventing non-Native American prisoners from obtaining Native American spiritual items violated the Equal Protection Clause. The court issued an injunction enjoining the application of the policy, based solely on race. …
Retaliation Claim Requires Trial by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that a trial was required to determine if a prisoner was retaliated against for exercising his right to religious freedom. The court also held that prisoners have no right to encourage other prisoners to file grievances …
Article • April 15, 2000 • from PLN April, 2000
Long Term Segregation of Security Threat Group Okay by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that the long-term segregation of a purported religious sect as a Security Threat Group (STG) violates neither the Free Exercise nor the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution. It further …
Brief • March 21, 2000
Jackson v. DC, Opinion for Defendants, Religious Practice, 2000 89 F.Supp.2d 48 (2000) Louis JACKSON, Isadore Gartrell, Carl Wolfe & Roddy McDowell, Plaintiffs, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Odie Washington, & The Federal Bureau of Prisons, Defendants. No. Civ.A. 99-03276 (HHK). United States District Court, District of Columbia. March 21, 2000. …
AZ Jail's Discriminatory Treatment of Muslims Requires Trial by The court of appeals for the ninth circuit held that a district court erred when it granted summary judgment to jail officials regarding claims of discriminatory treatment by a Muslim jail prisoner. Benjamin Freeman was held in the Maricopa county jail …
Article • May 15, 1997 • from PLN May, 1997
Indiana Muslim Consent Decree Vacated under PLRA by A federal district court in Indiana applied the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) to immediately terminate a consent decree judgment governing prisoners' religious rights. In 1982 prisoners at the Indiana State Prison entered into a consent decree with prison officials to settle …
Michigan ACLU Protests Religious Prison College by The ACLU of Michigan has sent a complaint to the attorney general's office against Spring Arbor College, which holds a $560,000 DOC contract to teach college courses at four Michigan state prisons. The complaint was filed after the school sent out letters to …
Santeros Win PI by Santeria is a religion which combines aspects of Catholicism and African animism. Believers worship saints, or orishas, who have their own personalities and characteristics. Santeria is widely practiced in Caribbean and Latin American countries. In Church of the Lukumi Babah Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah, …
What's Wrong in the Ohio DOC? by John Perotti It's been almost a year since the end of the siege at Lucasville. During this time investigations have been conducted by the State Legislature, State Highway Patrol and Scioto County Prosecutor's Office. The mass media has focused on "crimes" committed during …
Article • June 15, 1993 • from PLN June, 1993
Moorish Appeal for Your Support by Taajwar Rasheed-Bey Members of The Moorish Science Temple of America, who are incarcerated in the penal institutions in the state of Indiana, have received much opposition and are being continuously denied the right to practice our religious beliefs, to hold religious services by the …
Ribs v. Taylor, CA, Consent Judgement and Decree, Religious Freedom - 'Sweat Lodge' Access, 1979 Ribs v. Taylor i:V i J 3379 PC-CA-010-001 \ FILED 1 APR 18 1279 > ! APB!3//3 22PH 79 CLERK, U. S. DISTRICT COURT OI.EPK U.S.DISTRiCTCOli'T CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA V.tuiuM DIS7.OF <;.'.:;.-'. BY ( …
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