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AG Mail Must be Treated as Legal Mail
Loaded on March 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1995, page 3
Rakim Muhammad is a Michigan state prisoner. He challenged a Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) policy of treating mail to prisoners from the state Attorney generals office as ordinary mail, i.e. opened outside the addressees presence, rather than as legal mail where it is opened by prison officials only in …
Filed under:
Attorneys General,
Civil Procedure,
Declaratory Judgment,
Mail Regulations,
Legal Mail.
Location:
Michigan.
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