Melvin A. McCabe and Mark H. Madsen v. Arvon J. Arave, Warden, Idaho State Penitentiary Al Murphy, Director, Idaho State Department of Corrections

EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

This case requires us to determine the constitutionality of regulations governing prisoners at the Idaho State Correctional Institution in Boise. We affirm the district court’s judgment in favor of the state on the issues of group worship and group study by Church Jesus Christ Christian (CJCC) close-custody inmates, but reverse it as to the ban on storage of CJCC literature in the chapel library. We also vacate the portion of the judgment that pertains to facial hair and pork-free diets.

I. Background

McCabe and Madsen, 1 members of the CJCC, are close-custody…