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Shi'ite Prisoner's Complaint States §1983 Claim Against DOCS' Sunni Imams
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Retaliation for Litigating, Retaliatory Segregation, Immunity/Liability, Qualified Immunity, Ad-Seg Hearings, Denial of Religious Services, Religious Practices, Clergy, Religion Defined, Proselytizing
Shi'ite Prisoner's Complaint States §1983 Claim Against DOCS' Sunni Imams by Shi'ite Prisoner's Complaint States §1983 Claim Against DOCS' Sunni Imams The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, on motions for partial summary judgment and to dismiss, held that a New York Department of Correctional Services …
Colorado Prisoners Win Partial Reversal on Religious Claims
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Summary Judgment, Religious Freedom, Religious Diet, Religious Property, Religion Defined
Colorado Prisoners Win Partial Reversal on Religious Claims by Two Colorado state prisoners won partial reversal of an adverse summary judgment ruling in their civil rights suit contesting Colorado Department of Corrections (CODOC) administrative regulations prohibiting practice of their Christian Identity Faith and classifying Christian Identity as a Security Threat …
US Supreme Court Held Laws Targeting Religion Are Unconstitutional; Santeria a Religion
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Religious Freedom, Religious Practices, Religion Defined
US Supreme Court Held Laws Targeting Religion Are Unconstitutional; Santeria a Religion by US Supreme Court Held Laws Targeting Religion Are Unconstitutional; Santeria a Religion The US Supreme Court held that no law can be enacted that denies people their right to religious freedom. The free Exercise Clause protects religious …
Wicca Is a Religion
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Injunctions, Religious Freedom, Denial of Religious Services, Religious Practices, Religious Property, Religion Defined
Wicca Is a Religion by Wicca is a Religion The court of appeals for the Fourth circuit held that Wicca is a religion for First amendment purposes, but that a district court erred in granting a Virginia prisoner an injunction to have various religious items (white hooded robe, candles, statute, …
MI Court Holds RLUIPA Constitutional
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Gang Policies, Religious Discrimination, Federal Statutory Law, RLUIPA, Religion Defined
MI Court Holds RLUIPA Constitutional by A Michigan Federal Court held the religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) of 2000, 42 U.S.C. section 2000cc, is constitutional. Members of the Melanic Islamic Palace of the Rising Sun brought this class action suit after the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) …
Supreme Court Sets Standard in Establishment Clause Suits
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Religious Freedom, Religion Defined
Supreme Court Sets Standard in Establishment Clause Suits by The United States Supreme Court held that state statutes from Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, which supplemented teacher's salaries in religious schools, violated the religious establishment clause of the First Amendment. A federal district court found that Rhode Island's provision, which provided …
En Banc Third Circuit Defines Religious Standard
Article • April 15, 2002 • from PLN April, 2002
Filed under: Food, Religious Freedom, Religious Diet, Religion Defined
En Banc Third Circuit Defines Religious Standard by by Matthew T. Clarke The federal Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit sitting en banc has ruled that the centrality of a religious belief to a prisoner's religion is not a factor in whether the belief must be accommodated by prison …
Summary Judgment Granted for Forced Religious Substance Abuse Program
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
Filed under: Mental Health, Drug Treatment/Rehab, Required Religious Programming, Religion Defined
Summary Judgment Granted for Forced Religious Substance Abuse Program by A New York federal district court has awarded summary judgment to a prisoner who held agnostic beliefs and was forced to participate in a prison religious-based substance abuse program. New York prisoner Troy Alexander sued officials at Cayuga Correctional Facility …
Denial of Religious Diet Violates First Amendment
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Filed under: Religious Freedom, Religious Diet, Religion Defined, Sabbaths
Denial of Religious Diet Violates First Amendment by The Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that prison officials' denial of a religious diet violated the First Amendment by substantially burdening a state prisoner's religious beliefs. Arkansas state prisoner Kelvin Love is a self-proclaimed adherent of the "Hebrew religion." …
Secular Humanism: Philosophy or Religion?
Article • May 15, 2001 • from PLN May, 2001
Filed under: Qualified Immunity, Religious Freedom, Denial of Religious Services, Religion Defined
Secular Humanism: Philosophy or Religion? by The D.C. Circuit has held that federal prison officials were entitled to qualified immunity for refusing to recognize secular humanism as a religion. Ben Kalka, a former federal prisoner, sought to form secular humanism groups to meet in prison chapels. At his last unit …
Race Requirement for Religion Struck Down
Article • June 15, 1998 • from PLN June, 1998
Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Racial Discrimination, American Indian Religious Freedom Act, Religious Freedom, Religious Practices, Religion Defined
Race Requirement for Religion Struck Down by Afederal district court in Louisiana held that a prison rule allowing only ethnic Native Americans to engage in Native American Religious (NAR) practices was unconstitutional. Seven Louisiana state prisoners housed in a private prison operated by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) on …
Death Blossoms
Article • July 15, 1997 • from PLN July, 1997
Filed under: Political Prisoners, Reviews, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty, Religion Defined
Death Blossoms by Mark Cook Review by Mark Cook Mumia Abu Jamal's Death Blossoms walks the reader through a hallway of mirrors reflecting the thoughts of a prisoner of conscience contending with the oppressive diversion of a death sentence. Death Blossoms evades the State's attempt to silence him. In an …
Satanist Claim Goes to Trial
Article • November 15, 1996 • from PLN November, 1996
Filed under: Injunctions, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Qualified Immunity, Supervisory Liability, Religious Freedom, Religious Property, Religion Defined
Satanist Claim Goes to Trial by A federal district court in New York held that prison officials failed to show any legitimate penological interest in denying a Satanist the right to practice his faith in prison. Alfredo Ramirez is a New York state prisoner and a Satanist. He filed suit …
Religious Standards Applied
Article • February 15, 1993 • from PLN February, 1993
Filed under: Settlements, Consent Decrees, Religious Freedom, Denial of Religious Services, Religion Defined
Religious Standards Applied by Gary Bear is an Iowa state prisoner. He is part Native American and sought to participate in Native American Religion (NAR) ceremonies at the Iowa Penitentiary, but was prohibited from doing so by the prison's NAR consultant because he did not have a Bureau of Indian …
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