NEW ORLEANS AP – Louisiana state prisons can’t justify banning inmates from receiving copies of a newspaper published by the Nation of Islam, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
A three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal judge’s ruling that the David Wade Correctional Center must deliver copies of The Final Call newspaper to Henry Leonard, a convicted murderer. The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana backed Leonard’s claims that the Homer prison violated his right to free exercise of religion.
