Prison Rights Groups Allege Mistreatment Of African-American Muslims
Style Magazine Newswire | 1/19/2018, 11:43 a.m.
CAIR’s Mustafaa Carroll and attorney Joaquina Rodriquez
Source: Houston Public Media
Prisoner rights groups are concerned that Jewish and Muslim inmates have been denied legally-mandated religious accommodations. But they’re focusing on two inmates who were placed in solitary confinement in the Ramsey unit with no charges or disciplinary hearing. Mustafaa Carroll is with CAIR-Houston. Attorney Joaquina Rodriquez said prisoner Nanon Williams filed a grievance, and Warden Virgil McMullen has 30 days to respond. But she said the warden heads the grievance hearing. During Hurricane Harvey, five units were evacuated, and at least 25 more lost power, including the facility in Rosharon, where the Ramsey Unit needed more than $600,000 in repairs. Response after deadline from Jason Clark with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice: “The allegations presented are not factual. Neither were denied clothes or placed in a cell with no heat or water. “
