Legal Opinion
Woods v. Evatt
District Court, D. South Carolina
Decided January 24, 1995No. Civ. A. 3:94-1071-3BCPublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
GEORGE ROSS ANDERSON, Jr., District Judge.
The five plaintiffs in this action are all inmates who were, at the time the suit was filed, incarcerated at the Allendale Correctional Institution (ACI), a part of the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC). Plaintiffs alleged in their complaint that they were the victims of discrimination based on their religious beliefs. All five of the plaintiffs are practicing Muslims. In their complaint, which was filed April 20, 1994, the plaintiffs asserted that they had been deprived of their Constitutional rights in violation of 42 U.S.C. §…
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