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Prison May Not Open Identifiable Legal Mail Outside Prisoner's Presence

The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California held that a
prison's practice of opening legal mail that was not labeled in a specific
manner, but otherwise readily identifiable as legal mail was unconstitutional.

Policy at the Lompoc federal prison in California dictated that legal mail
is labeled …

 

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