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Arizona Jail Porn Ban Struck Down

Loaded on Feb. 15, 1999 published in Prison Legal News February, 1999, page 25
Filed under: Standing, Municipal Liability, Mail, Publications/Books, Sexually Explicit Materials, Mail Regulations. Location: Arizona.
The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that a jail rule banning all sexually explicit materials was unconstitutional. In 1993 the Maricopa county jail in Phoenix, Arizona, adopted rules banning all sexually explicit materials from receipt or possession by Jail prisoners. The policy defined "sexually explicit" as any ...

 

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