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MOSKOWITZ v. WILKINSON

Civ. No. B-77-55.

432 F.Supp. 947 (1977)

Philip N. MOSKOWITZ v. George C. WILKINSON, Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury, Connecticut.

United States District Court, D. Connecticut.

May 25, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis Curtis, Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, New Haven, Conn., Joseph S. Genova & Fred C. Zacharias, Law Student Interns, Yale Law School, New Haven, Conn., for petitioner.

Raymond L. Sweigart, Asst. U. S. Atty., New Haven, Conn., and Mitchell Dubick, U. S. Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., for respondent.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

NEWMAN, District Judge.

Philip Moskowitz is an Orthodox Jewish prisoner incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury. For religious reasons he declines to remove his beard, and is therefore in violation of the current policies of the Bureau of Prisons and F.C.I., Danbury, which now absolutely prohibit beards.1 Petitioner has been the subject of four disciplinary proceedings for his violation...

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