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Legal Papers Must be Returned to Owner; Prisoner Legal Mail Banned

Loaded on Feb. 15, 1998 published in Prison Legal News February, 1998, page 17
Filed under: Transfers, Prisoner Legal Assistance, Legal Materials, Civil Procedure, Injunctions, Standing, Mail Regulations, Legal Mail. Location: Iowa.
The court of appeals for the eighth circuit held a district court erred when it ordered prison officials to allow prisoner co-plaintiffs to correspond with each other about their case. The court affirmed an injunction requiring prison officials to return to its owner legal papers in the possession of jailhouse …

 

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