RLUIPA monetary/restitution awards

[Mark Sabel]

Dear List,

	Assume a state correctional system seizes an inmate's religious items. Is any form of monetary relief available under RLUIPA, including against the state DOC or individual officer?

	If not, is there any RLUIPA remedy when a state DOC confiscates an inmates' religious items and then destroys those items?  Maybe simply a declaratory judgment that the inmate could replace the items?
 

Thank you very much,


Mark Sabel
Sabel Law Firm, L.L.C.
P.O. Box 231348
Montgomery, AL 36123
Phone: (334) 546-2161
Fax: (334) 819-7051
E-Mail: MkSabel at mindspring.com



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