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Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
Massachusetts DOC Injunction Requiring Broadcast of Jum’ah Services via Closed-Circuit Television Upheld by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld an injunction requiring the Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC) to broadcast Friday Jum’ah services via closed circuit television to Muslim prisoners in segregation. The injunction comes in …
Brief • December 10, 2010
Filed under: Religious Diet
Hall v. Martin, MI, Complaint, MDOC religious diet kosher, 2010 Case 1:10-cv-01221-PLM -JGS Doc #1 Filed 12/10/10 Page 1 of 7 Page ID#1 FILED- GR UNITED STATES DISTRICf COURT WESTERN DISTRICf OF MICIDGAN George Norris Hall, #090753, December 10, 2010 2:40PM TRACEY CORDES, CLERK U.S. DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF …
PLN Sues South Carolina Jail that Bans All Reading Material Except Bibles by On October 6, 2010, Prison Legal News, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Human Rights Defense Center staff attorney Lance Weber, filed suit in federal court challenging an unconstitutional policy at the Berkeley County …
Gartrell v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, PA, Complaint, Muslim Prayer Policy, 2020 Case 1:10-cv-02160-WWC-PT Document 1 Filed 10/20/2010 Page 1 of 23 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA ISADORE GARTRELL, Plaintiff, v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS; HOWARD HUFFORD, individually and in his official capacity …
Article • October 15, 2010 • from PLN October, 2010
Filed under: Religious Freedom, Clergy
New York Prison Chaplain Accused of Smuggling Weapons by Zul Qarnain Abdu-Shahid, 58, a Muslim chaplain for the New York City Department of Corrections (NYDOC), was arrested on February 3, 2010 for attempting to introduce contraband into the Manhattan Detention Complex; he was temporarily held on $50,000 bond after his …
Third Circuit Reverses $642,398.57 Attorney Fee Award for RFRA Claim by Immigration Prisoner by The Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed an immigration detainee’s $642,398.57 attorney fee award, finding that “the District Court’s degree of success inquiry under § 1988 was based on an impermissible reconstruction of the jury verdict.” …
Thou Shalt Not: Sexual Misconduct by Prison and Jail Chaplains by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Traditionally, the role of a chaplain in the correctional setting is to serve as a spiritual advisor to prisoners and help them meet the requirements of their religious faiths. Equally traditionally, chaplains have …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
Filed under: Organizing, Clergy
Clergy Who Advocate for Prisoners Barred from Prisons and Jails by As described in this month’s cover story, prison and jail chaplains accused of sexual misconduct often resign, retire, are fired or are sometimes prosecuted. In other cases, though, well-meaning clergy members who seek to help prisoners have been locked …
Article • August 15, 2010 • from PLN August, 2010
California Prisoner Wins Option of Kosher Meals Until Halal Meals Can be Provided by The Marin County Superior Court ordered San Quentin prison officials to provide Keith Allen Lewis, a Muslim prisoner, with access to Jewish kosher meals until he could be provided with the Halal meals prescribed by his …
Seventh Circuit: Catholic Prisoner’s Religious Diet Lawsuit Remanded by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held a Catholic prisoner’s free exercise of religion was substantially burdened because he was denied a non-meat diet on Fridays and during Lent. In 2003, Illinois state prisoner Brian …
Article • July 15, 2010 • from PLN July, 2010
New Jersey DOC Agrees to Let Prisoner Preach by In November 2009, the New Jersey Department of Corrections (DOC) settled a lawsuit brought under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). The suit, filed by the ACLU on behalf of a New Jersey state prisoner, alleged the DOC …
Article • July 15, 2010
Washington DOC Agrees to Pay $1,000 to Prisoner Who Was Forced to Cut His Hair by On May 9, 2007, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to pay $1,000 to a prisoner who was forced to cut his hair. Sebastian Lubers had been growing his hair for five years …
Article • June 15, 2010 • from PLN June, 2010
Fifth Circuit: RLUIPA Does Not Create Individual Capacity Cause of Action by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) does not create a cause of action against defendants in their individual capacities. The Court also held that the denial …
New Jersey: Class-Action Status Granted in Suit Challenging Conditions of Confinement at Passaic County Jail by Michael Brodheim On May 28, 2009, a U.S. District Court granted class-action status to prisoners seeking declaratory and injunctive relief for unconstitutional conditions of confinement at the Passaic County Jail (PCJ) in Paterson, New …
Article • June 15, 2010 • from PLN June, 2010
Sixth Circuit: RLUIPA Does Not Permit Monetary Damages by The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) does not allow money damages for violations of that statute, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held on April 24, 2009. The Court entered its decision in an appeal …
Article • June 15, 2010 • from PLN June, 2010
Fourth Circuit Holds Individual Capacity Damage Claims Unavailable Under RLUIPA by The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000cc et seq., does not authorize individual capacity damages actions. The Court’s ruling came in the appeal of …
John Henry Knows His Gun, et al. v. Corrections Corp. of America, Crossroads Correctional, MT, settlement, discrimination against Native American prisoners, 2010 GENERAL RELEASE RELEASORS: JOHN HENRY KNOWS HIS GUN, DEE CHANCE WHITE HIP, DARRYL LEWIS FROST, JASON JAY CHIEFSTICK, BRIAN ANTHONY JOHNSTON, EDWARD STAMPER, WILLIAM GOPHER, ALLEN POTTER RELEASEES: …
$27,500 Settlement for Washington Prisoner’s Public Records and RLUIPA Claims by The State of Washington Department of Corrections paid $27,500 to settle two lawsuits brought by prisoner Derek E. Gronquist. The first action involved request for disclosure of public records, and the second related to violations of religious freedom. The …
Summary Judgment Denied in Virginia Strip Cell Suit by A Virginia Federal District Court denied defendants’ motion for summary judgment in a prisoner’s lawsuit alleging use of excessive force and cruel and unusual conditions. Ray L. Holley, a prisoner at Red Onion State Prison in Virginia, on September 29, 2007, …
Sweat Lodge Ban Does Not Violate RLUIPA by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s determination that denial of a sweat lodge for Native American prisoners did not violate the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). Missouri prisoner Clifford Fowler, a Native American, is serving …
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