James Turner v. Gary Hamblin

ORDER

James Turner is a Muslim inmate incarcerated at Columbia Correctional Institution, a maximum-security prison in Wisconsin. Turner sued members of the prison staff, seeking punitive damages from them for violating the First Amendment, see 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and the Reli gious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, see 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc-l. He raises two accusations: First, over a five-year period staff impeded his free exercise of religion by canceling Islamic services when non-prisoners were unavailable to lead the services, rather than allowing services to proceed with inmate…