UNITED STATES EX REL. JONES v. RUNDLE

No. 19502.

453 F.2d 147 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Burwell L. JONES, Appellant, v. Alfred T. RUNDLE, Superintendent.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided December 28, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edith G. Laver, Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant.

Thomas W. Jennings, Asst. Atty. Gen., Philadelphia, Pa., (J. Shane Creamer, Atty. Gen., Herbert Monheit, Asst. Atty. Gen., by Larry Elliot Jones, Asst. Atty. Gen., Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief) for appellee.

Before BIGGS, ADAMS and ROSENN, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

ADAMS, Circuit Judge.

The sole issue in this case is whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment against an untried prisoner, confined to a maximum security cell as a matter of routine procedure, who alleged that the prison authorities thereby denied him his constitutional right to practice his religion freely. It is undisputed that prison regulations provide that persons confined in maximum security may not attend...

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