Lawsuit: Mich. corrections officers took Muslim inmate’s religious items

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PITTSFIELD TWP., Mich. — A Muslim prisoner in Michigan’s only facility for women is contending Michigan Department of Corrections officers violated her religious freedom while she was incarcerated, calling her a “fake Muslim” and offering her a Bible.

Keshuna Abcumby, a prisoner at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional facility outside Ypsilanti, filed a lawsuit Sept. 28 in U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan against the Michigan Department of Corrections Director Heidi Washington, the prison’s warden and five correctional officers…

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