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JOHNSON-BEY v. LANE

Nos. 86-2205, 86-2581 and 86-3052.

863 F.2d 1308 (1988)

Ronnie JOHNSON-BEY, John Lee Lipscomb-Bey, and Reginald Morgan-Bey, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Cross-Appellees, v. Michael P. LANE, et al., Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 5, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick O'Hara, Blane & O'Hara, Petersburg, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants, cross-appellees.

William D. Frazier, Office of Illinois Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees, cross-appellants.

Before POSNER, RIPPLE and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The appeal and cross-appeal in this prisoners' civil rights case under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 present issues of religious freedom. The plaintiffs, three inmates at the Illinois state prison at Menard, belong to the black Islamic sect known as the Moorish Science Temple of America. That it is a bona fide religion is not questioned, although three-fourths of its temples (congregations) are inside prisons...

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