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VA Case Settled: DOC must allow Final Call and Programs from the Nation of Islam at Red Onion

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Va. Muslim inmate case settled By the Associated Press Washington Post- November 24, 2010 Virginia has settled a lawsuit filed by a Muslim inmate who claimed the prisons system violated his rights by refusing him an Islamic newspaper and religious programs. Red Onion State Prison inmate Kelvin Brown, 37, sued the warden and other prison officials after numerous issues of the weekly Islamic newspaper The Final Call were banned beginning in 2009. The Department of Corrections bans material it says promotes violence or is detrimental to safety. Brown, who is serving a life sentence for robbery and other charges, was not told why the issues were banned. In the settlement, the state agreed to allow inmates to receive the previously banned issues and to offer an explanation if other issues are banned in the future...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 25, 2010 (boomark / email).