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Prisoners Have Right to Correspond and Marry

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, in a class-action suit under 42 U.S.C. §1983, held that the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) policies prohibiting prisoner-to-prisoner correspondence and generally prohibiting prisoners from getting married, violated fundamental constitutional rights. The court further found that DOC regulations were enforced …

 

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