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Prisoners Have Right to Privacy in Their Mail
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1992, page 3
Prisoners Have Right to Privacy in their Mail David Jolivet is a Utah state prisoner who married Dorothy Pacheco, a member of a prisoner rights group named "Pepper". Prior to marrying Jolivet, Pacheco had been married to another Utah prisoner named Stevenson. Craig Rasmussen is an investigator with the Utah …
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More from this issue:
- Status of Reformatory Crowding Litigation, by Ed Mead
- Grievance Standards Changed
- Overcrowding and Violence in Washington State, by Ed Mead
- Parolees Have a Right to Bodily Privacy
- Transferred Con Has Right to Books of Sending State
- Prisoners Have Right to Privacy in Their Mail
- Medication Must Be Delivered in Timely Manner
- Contempt Order Appropriate for Consent Decree Violation
- Expungement of Infraction Reversed
- Federal Prisoners Must Exhaust Habeas Before Filing Suit
- State Judges Can Be Sued for Injunctive Relief in Federal Court
- Parole Officers Can Be Sued
- BOP Prisoners Must Exhaust Administrative Remedies
- Washington Smoking Suit Dismissed
- Muslims Entitled to Prayer Oils
- Gay Prisoner Entitled to Participate in Religious Services
- Resistance at Lexington, by Laura Whitehorn
- Editorial, by Ed Mead
- Committee Formed to Defend Abimael Guzman
- Walla Walla News
- Perotti Needs Help, by John Perotti
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