A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a Connecticut prison inmate who said his First, Fourth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated because he never received a religious book that was mailed to him on two occasions. The ruling does allow for inmate Jose Ramos to file an amended complaint by Oct. 1.

Judge Victor Bolden of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut said he was giving Ramos, a prisoner at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institute in Suffield, time to fix what he said were “deficiencies” in his April lawsuit against the state Department of Correction and Gov. Dannel Malloy, among others.