Fowler v. Crawford

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• acknowledging that prisons have “limited resources” and may restrict practices because they cause a “drain on prison security’s manpower”
• emphasizing that “[a] prison’s interest in order and security is always compelling” and that prison officials are not required to “present evidence of actual problems to justify security concerns”
• noting that practitioners of Native American faith at Jefferson City Correctional Center, a maximum security prison, are permitted to possess a “sacred bundle” consisting of “a prayer pipe, sage, cedar, sweet grass, tobacco, a medicine bag, and prayer feathers”
• controlling costs is a compelling government interest and serving vegan, rather than kosher, was the least restrictive means

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).