If a person with religious beliefs and practices that could conflict with the restrictions of prison is sentenced, how are his or her beliefs and practices accomodated? Must they be?
Slate.com offers a brief explainer in light of the Amish beard-cutting case.
For analysis concerning the prisoner provisions of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), check out Chapter 7 of the e-book Religious Free Exercise and Contemporary American Politics: The Saga of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons ACT of 2000. Notably, the case that upheld the constitutionality of the incarceration provisions, Cutter v. Wilkinson, originated in Ohio.
Slate.com offers a brief explainer in light of the Amish beard-cutting case.
For analysis concerning the prisoner provisions of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), check out Chapter 7 of the e-book Religious Free Exercise and Contemporary American Politics: The Saga of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons ACT of 2000. Notably, the case that upheld the constitutionality of the incarceration provisions, Cutter v. Wilkinson, originated in Ohio.