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Mail Between Prisoner and Former Prison Employee Allowed

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Sentencing, Habeas Corpus, Mail Regulations. Location: Missouri.

The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit granted habeas relief to a wheelchair bound, paraplegic BOP prisoner in Missouri who was denied correspondence with a former female BOP employee he became romantically involved with. The court held that on the record of the case, there were no valid security ...

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