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Indiana Appeals Court Allows Prisoner to Sue to Receive Pornography
Loaded on May 15, 2004
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2004, page 41
The Court of Appeals of Indiana, partly reversing the Marion Superior Court, held that an Indiana Department of Corrections (DOC) prisoner can sue the DOC for its refusal to let him receive pornographic material. Jerry Montgomery is a DOC prisoner at the Indiana State Prison (ISP). He sought to receive ...
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