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Opening Legal Mail Violates Access to Courts

Loaded on Dec. 15, 1995 published in Prison Legal News December, 1995, page 3
Filed under: Attorney Client, Qualified Immunity, Mail, Mail Regulations, Legal Mail. Location: Pennsylvania.
The court of appeals for the third circuit has held that opening a prisoner's legal mail outside his presence violates his right of access to the courts. The court also held that this right is well established so that prison officials who violate it are not entitled to qualified immunity ...

 

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