Prison Ban On White Supremacist Books Upheld

In Borzych v. Frank, 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 19840 (USDC, WD Wis., Sept. 9, 2005), a Wisconsin federal district court rejected a prisoner's claim that he was wrongfully denied access to several White Supremacist books in violation of his religious rights. The court rejected plaintiff's First Amendment, RLUIPA, and state statutory claims, finding that the prison's "interest in maintaining a safe and secure multi-racial prison environment is served by minimizing plaintiff's ability to flaunt his kinship with a disruptive group whose philosophical ideology promotes racial superiority, encourages violence and disregards social standards."