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Guards Can't Be Prevented From Making Positive Recommendations To Parole Board
Loaded on May 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1992, page 7
A policy prohibiting correctional employees from making recommendations directly to the parole board could be challenged by inmate asserting correctional employee's first amendment rights; such communications were not "purely personal," the court held, but rather involved matters of "public concern." The case started when an inmate in a Georgia prison …
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