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Prisoners Entitled to Free Legal Mail Postage
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1995, page 15
Several prisoners at the Iowa Mens Reformatory (IMP) f led suit under 42 U.S.A. § 1983 seeking injunctive relief from the prisons policy of denying indigent prisoners in administrative segregation any free legal or personal postage. Prisoners in ad seg are not allowed to earn money from prison jobs nor …
Filed under:
Injunctions,
Seizure of Prisoner Funds,
Mail,
Mail Regulations,
Postage,
Legal Mail.
Location:
Iowa.
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