Jackson-Bey v. Hanslmaier

WALKER, Circuit Judge:

In March of 1995, plaintiff Travis Jackson-Bey, an inmate at Woodbourne Correctional Facility in New York (‘Woodbourne”), commenced this action pro se under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that Woodbourne officials *1093Robert Hanslmaier, acting superintendent, and Lieutenant Jones, watch commander, violated the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment by precluding him from wearing to his father’s funeral white garments and a red fez as prescribed by his religion, Moorish Science Temple (“MST”), an Islamic sect. Jackson-Bey alleges that this denial was part of a pattern of…