Sutton v. Rasheed.U.S. Appeals Court RELIGIOUS ARTICLES Sutton v. Rasheed, 323 F.3d 236 (3rd Cir. 2003). State prisoners brought a [section] 1983 action alleging infringement upon their rights under the free exercise clause of the First Amendment The Free Exercise Clause is the accompanying clause with the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights (part of the Constitution). As it states in full: . The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants and the prisoners appealed. The appeals court affirmed, finding that although the prisoners' rights The nature and extent of the privileges afforded to individuals kept in custody or confinement against their will because they have been convicted of performing an unlawful act. For most of U.S. had been violated, corrections officials were entitled to qualified immunity Qualified immunity is a doctrine in United States law providing immunity from suit to government officials performing discretionary functions when their action did not violate clearly established law. Qualified immunity was created by the U.S. because the law was not clearly established at the time. The court held that a state prison regulation that prohibited "books other than legal materials and a personal Bible, Holy Koran or other religious equivalent" was invalid as applied to restrictive status prisoners, who were precluded from possessing Nation of Islam Nation of Islam: see Black Muslims. Nation of Islam or Black Muslims African American religious movement that mingles elements of Islam and black nationalism. It was founded in 1931 by Wallace D. texts on the basis that those documents were not religious. The court found that there was no legitimate penological pe·nol·o·gy also poe·nol·o·gy n. The study, theory, and practice of prison management and criminal rehabilitation. [Latin poena, penalty (from Greek interest in prison administrators' denial of those texts. (Special Management Unit, State Correctional Institution-Camp Hill, Pennsylvania) |
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