MATTER OF AMNESTY AM. v. JACKSON


202 A.D.2d 416 (1994)

608 N.Y.S.2d 527

In the Matter of Amnesty America, by Richard Bruno, et al., Appellants, v. Norwood E. Jackson, as Commissioner of The Department of Correction of the County of Westchester, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

March 7, 1994


Ordered that the order and judgment is affirmed, with costs.

The petitioner Martin Keegan, a Roman Catholic priest, was confined to the Westchester County Jail. He commenced this proceeding challenging the respondent's regulation prohibiting alcohol in prison cells as violative of his Constitutional right to freely practice his religion. He alleged that his religion requires him to celebrate Mass daily and that wine is a

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