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Prison Magazine Censorship Reversed

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Mail, Sexually Explicit Materials, Mail Regulations, Censorship. Location: South Dakota.

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that prison officials violated a South Dakota prisoner's constitutional rights by refusing to allow him to receive a magazine entitled Mature. In rejecting the magazine prison officials stated: "the magazine has absolutely no rehabilitative value. It is nothing more than a club magazine …

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