How have courts applied the "necessity" or "least drastic means" analysis to a prisoner's free exercise claim?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from Arias, In re, 230 Cal.Rptr. 505, 42 Cal.3d 667, 725 P.2d 664 (Cal. 1986):

[725 P.2d 675] Other cases have similarly applied a "necessity" or "least drastic means" analysis to prisoners' free exercise claims. (See Gallahan v. Hollyfield (4th Cir.1982) 670

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