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Wisconsin Property Policy Violates RFRA
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1996, page 17
A federal district court in Wisconsin held that a state DOC policy sharply restricting prisoner property violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) when it prohibits prisoners from wearing religious jewelry. The court held that the policy did not violate the RFRA in that it restricted the number of publications ...
Filed under:
Religious Freedom Restoration Act,
Religious Freedom,
Religious Property.
Location:
Wisconsin.
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