JONES v. WILLINGHAM

No. T-3252.

248 F.Supp. 791 (1965)

Richard H. JONES, Jr., Plaintiff, v. J. T. WILLINGHAM, Warden, United State Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, Defendant.

United States District Court D. Kansas.

November 5, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Willard L. Phillips, McAnany, Van Cleave & Phillips, Kansas City, Kan., for plaintiff.

Benjamin E. Franklin, Asst. U. S. Atty., Topeka, Kan., and Clair Cripe, Legal Department, Bureau of Prisons, Washington, D. C., for defendant.


ARTHUR J. STANLEY, Jr., Chief Judge.

The plaintiff, an inmate of the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, was permitted to file this action in forma pauperis. He alleges that solely because of his membership in the Nation of Islam, commonly called Black Muslims, he has been subjected to punishment and deprivation of privileges accorded adherents of other religious faiths; that he and inmates of like persuasion...

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