St. Louis Inmate's Free Exercise Claim Moves Ahead

In Chapman v. Stubblefield, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 5522 (ED Mo., Feb. 13, 2006), a Magistrate Judge in Missouri federal district court ordered St. Louis Justice Center officials to respond to inmates' charges that their free exercise of religion is infringed by the jail's policy of allowing only five prisoners at a time to attend worship services.