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Refusal to Mail Nebraska Prisoner’s Artwork Violates First Amendment
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2009
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2009, page 48
A Nebraska district court has held that prison officials violated a prisoner’s First Amendment right to send and receive mail when they refused to let him mail his drawings. The court’s ruling came on a motion for judgment as a matter of law following a three-day jury trial. The jury, ...
Filed under:
Attorney Fee Awards,
Art,
Mail,
Sexually Explicit Materials,
Mail Regulations.
Location:
Nebraska.
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