Roles v. Townsend

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the prison had “compelling interests in eliminating tobacco in prisons” and that the tobacco-free policy was the least restrictive means of furthering those interests
• analyzing whether Idaho’s tobacco-free prison policy was not only in furtherance of a compelling interest but also, pursuant to Idaho’s RFRA, “essential” to its interest in “maintain[ing] internal security and control[ling] the black market for tobacco”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).