Legal Opinion
Rasheed v. Commissioner of Correction
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 7, 2006PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCordy, J.
Rashad Rasheed, a practicing member of the Nation of Islam, a subsect of the Muslim faith that follows the teachings of Elijah Muhammad, has been an inmate in the custody of the Department of Correction (department) since 1975. In December, 2000, he commenced this action against the Commissioner of Correction, and the superintendent of the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center (SBCC) (a maximum security prison where Rasheed was incarcerated from 1988 to 2003) seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, and money damages for violations of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States…
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