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Update on PLN Suit Against Nevada DOC
Loaded on July 10, 2014
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2014, page 53
Filed under:
Publications/Books,
Mail Regulations,
PLN Litigation,
Censorship,
First Amendment.
Location:
Nevada.
Update on PLN Suit Against Nevada DOC
Prison Legal News continues its efforts to defend its First Amendment right to communicate with prisoners in the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC). In 1999 the NDOC banned all copies of PLN, claiming the publication constituted “inmate correspondence.” PLN filed suit …
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