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Prisoner Denied Pornography in a Wisconsin Prison

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2013

Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Reading Materials, Publications/Books, Sexually Explicit Materials. Location: Wisconsin.

A Wisconsin appellate court held that a prisoner’s lawsuit against guards for denying him pornography was properly dismissed.

The Court of Appeals, District IV, affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by Green Bay Correctional Institution prisoner Charles Downing on January 3, 2013. The lawsuit alleged that guards wrongfully confiscated …

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