In filing the complaint, government lawyers moved to intervene in a similar lawsuit filed on Feb. 25 by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California and Alston & Bird on behalf of Sukhjinder S. Basra, an inmate at California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo, Calif. That suit named Matthew Cate, secretary of the corrections department, and Terri Gonzales, the warden of the prison.
“The freedom to practice one’s faith in peace is among our most cherished rights,” said Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for the civil rights division, in a prepared statement.
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