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WA DOC Sanctioned in Grievance Mail Case

Loaded on Feb. 15, 1995 published in Prison Legal News February, 1995, page 16
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Injunctions, Contempt (Civil Procedure), Sanctions, Mail Regulations, Legal Mail. Location: Washington.
In the September, 1994, issue of PLN we reported OKeefe v. Murphy, the unpublished case by US District Judge Alan McDonald which held that prisoners mail to and from different government agencies was entitled to confidential treatment, i.e. being opened only in the prisoner recipient s presence without being read …

 

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