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Third Circuit Revives Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Lawsuit Over Censorship of Incoming Mail Containing Key Evidence

Loaded on Jan. 1, 2022 by Matthew Clarke, Dale Chappell published in Prison Legal News January, 2022, page 56
Filed under: Censorship. Location: Pennsylvania.

by Matt Clarke and Dale Chappell

On August 9, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed the dismissal of a prisoner’s lawsuit alleging his due-process and access-to-courts rights were violated when the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) failed to notify him it had censored a letter …

 

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