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| Commonwealth Court panel: Corrections Dept. didn’t violate rights of Nation of Islam members |
| By pennrecord.com - Jon Campisi |
| Published: 04/01/2013 |
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A Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court panel has sustained in part, and denied in part defense preliminary objections that had been filed by state corrections officials named in a class action lawsuit by a prison inmate who alleged various state and federal law violations relating to religious worship services. Kevin Mobley, an inmate at State Correctional Institution-Fayette, had initiated a class action lawsuit against a handful of officials with the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections alleging violations of both the U.S. and Pennsylvania Constitution, as well as the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Person Act and the Pennsylvania Religious Freedom Protection Act. The complaint alleged that the class members, who belong to the Nation of Islam, have been unconstitutionally and illegally denied separate worship services, and that the defendants “compelled” them to support and attend contradictive, Sunni Muslim services at the prison when Sunni Muslims consider NOI beliefs to not be in line with true Islam. Read More. |
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