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RFRA Allows Redaction of Religious Publication
Loaded on May 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1997, page 25
The court of appeals for the eleventh circuit held that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb, is not violated when prison officials censor only portions of a religious publication. This is the first eleventh circuit ruling to interpret the RFRA in the prison context. It is ...
Filed under:
Religious Freedom Restoration Act,
Mail,
Publications/Books,
Mail Regulations,
Religious Property.
Location:
Florida.
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