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Legal Mail May Not Be Read by Prison Guards
Loaded on Jan. 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1993, page 5
John Reneer is a Kentucky state prisoner. He filed suit claiming violation of his first amendment rights when prison officials read his incoming legal mail in front of him. The prison warden claims he ordered a search of Reneer's incoming legal mail based on a suspicion he was responsible for ...
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