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Transferred Prisoner States Claim As To Legal, Indigent Mail Policies

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Retaliation, Retaliation for Litigating, Writing Implements, Mail Regulations, Postage, Legal Mail. Location: Minnesota.

The United States Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a prisoner's 42
U.S.C. § 1983 action against prison officials stated a claim as to prison
policy of not providing free postage or writing supplies for legal
correspondence, forbidding legal correspondence to be mailed in envelopes
not purchased from the …

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