×
You've used up your 3 free articles for this month. Subscribe today.
Legal Mail May Not be Read
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1991
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1991, page 4
Legal Mail May Not Be Read
Filed under:
Attorney Client,
Civil Procedure,
Damages,
Qualified Immunity,
Legal Mail.
Location:
Florida.
A Florida prisoner filed suit under § 1983 after a letter from his attorney, addressed to him and marked "legal mail," was opened and read in his presence by a prison guard. The guard confiscated the letter and an attached newspaper clipping. The letter …
Full article and associated cases available to subscribers.
As a digital subscriber to Prison Legal News, you can access full text and downloads for this and other premium content.
Already a subscriber? Login
More from this issue:
- A Lesson From Japan, by Dan Pens
- The United States Supreme Court: Petition for Writ of Certiori, by Wm Daniel Ravenscroft
- Drug Profits Fund Prison
- Walla Walla 'Lifers With Hope'
- Mass. Corrections Policy "Disaster" Says Task Force
- Texas Prison Officials Indicted
- Mail Rejection Not Upheld
- Informants Must Be Reliable
- Prison Visitors May Not Be Searched Without Probable Cause
- Prisoners Entitled to Exculpatory Evidence In Disciplinary Hearings
- Legal Mail May Not be Read
- Prisoners Must Be Fed
- From The Editor, by Paul Wright
- Magistrates May Hear Prison Cases
- Grievance System Does Not Create Liberty Interest
- Reviews
- Justice for Jimmy Haynes?, by John Perotti
- PLN Banned in France, by Paul Wright
- The Ex Post Facto Clause and Washington's Parole Board, by Ed Mead
- California Prison Construction, by Ruth Cashmere
- Be a Rat or Else!
More from these topics:
- Fourth Circuit Revives North Carolina Prisoner’s Suit Blaming Lazy Guards for Assault by Detainee, May 1, 2026. Failure to Protect (General), Qualified Immunity, 42 U.S. Code § 1983, civil action for deprivation of rights, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Deliberate Indifference.
- Seventh Circuit Upholds Liability but Reverses Damages in Lawsuit Over Illinois Warden and Investigator Using Prisoner as Bait to Catch Staff Member Raping Her, May 1, 2026. Staff-Prisoner Assault, Failure to Protect (General), Damages, Evidentiary Ruling, Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
- $2.75 Million Paid by Washington County and NaphCare for Jail Detainee’s Suicide, April 1, 2026. Naphcare, Qualified Immunity, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Suicides, Deliberate Indifference.
- ICE Settles Suit Over Opening Detainees’ Legal Mail, April 1, 2026. Legal Mail, Attorney Visits, First Amendment, rights, Immigration Detention, Attorney/Client.
- $10.3 Million Paid for Teen’s Death at Kansas Juvenile Detention Facility, April 1, 2026. Restraints, Qualified Immunity, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death), 42 U.S. Code § 1983, civil action for deprivation of rights, Wrongful Use of Force.
- Ohio Supreme Court Awards Prisoner $1,000 for Denied Records Request, April 1, 2026. Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Damages, Public Records, Public Records Act.
- Like Prisoners, Most Jail Detainees Now Banned from Receiving Physical Mail, March 1, 2026. Jail Specific, Mail Regulations, Legal Mail, Censorship, Digital Devices, Private Phone Contractors.
- Eighth Circuit Revives Case Against Guards Who Failed to Intervene As Chaplain Sexually Assaulted Arkansas Prisoner, March 1, 2026. Staff-Prisoner Assault, Failure to Protect (General), Prison Rape Elimination Act, Qualified Immunity, Failure to Train/Supervise.
- Mail Went Digital in Alabama Prisons. Families Are Saying Their Mail Isn’t Being Delivered, March 1, 2026. Mail Regulations, Legal Mail, First Amendment, rights, Access To Courts, Access to Computers.
- Sixth Circuit Revives Michigan Prisoner’s Challenge to Guard Tackle That Broke His Foot, March 1, 2026. Evidentiary Ruling (Disciplinary Hearings), Guard Brutality/Beatings, Summary Judgment, Qualified Immunity, Wrongful Use of Force.