Hudson v. Spencer

MEMORANDUM & ORDER

GORTON, JUDGE.

This is a pro se prisoner case in which inmates at MCI-Concord claim that they have been denied the right to observe tenets of the Nation of Islam (“NOI”) while incarcerated. Defendants are all employees of MCI-Concord or the Massachusetts Department of Correction (“the DOC”).

Pending before the Court are defendants’ motion for summary judgment and plaintiffs’ cross-motion for summary judgment. For the reasons that follow, both motions will be allowed, in part, and denied, in part.

I. Background

Plaintiffs allege that defendants have violated 1) plaintiffs’ First…