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Kansas Supreme Court Upholds Gift Subscription Ban
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2005, page 33
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled that the Kansas Department of Corrections' (KDOC) rule IMPP 11-101, which prohibits prisoners from receiving gift subscriptions to magazines and newspapers, does not violate the prisoners' constitutional rights under the First Amendment.
Filed under:
Seizure of Prisoner Funds,
Mail,
Publications/Books,
Mail Regulations.
Location:
Kansas.
Reversing the Kansas Court of Appeals' decision contra in Rice v. Kansas, 76 ...
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