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Article • May 15, 2007
S.Ct. Holds Prison Officials Cannot Censor Court Pleadings by The United States supreme court held that a Michigan prison rule requiring prisoners to submit all legal pleadings to a prison investigator for review, before they could he filed with the courts, was invalid. Whether a habeas petition is properly drawn …
Article • May 15, 2007
Legal Mail Marking Requirement Upheld by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit upheld a Nebraska prison policy where mail from attorneys and the courts was opened and read outside the prisoner's presence if it was not marked "legal mail" even if it was obvious the mail came from …
Punishment for Publishing Newsletter Unconstitutional by The court of appeals for the Third circuit held that a district court erred when it dismissed a suit filed by Pennsylvania prisoners who were placed in segregation for publishing a prison newsletter. In reversing, the appeals court held that it is unconstitutional to …
Censorship of Religious Mail Reversed by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that a district court erred when it dismissed, for failure to state a claim, a Missouri prisoner's lawsuit that mail sent by the Moorish Science Temple was wrongly censored. The appeals court held that while …
Prisons Can't Ban Gay Literature; Pedophile Magazine Ban Upheld by The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit upheld the censorship of North American Man-Boy Love Association materials sent to a convicted pedophile at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla. The court said prison officials cannot censor gay literature. …
Article • May 15, 2007
Inspection of Outgoing Legal Mail Upheld by The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit upheld a Nevada prison practice of inspecting, but not reading, mail prisoners sent to the state attorney general's office for offensive and dangerous materials. See: Witherow v. Paff, 52 F.3d 264 (9th Cir. 1995).
Court Approves Draconian Seg Conditions by The court of appeals for the Fifth circuit upheld the denial of soap and towels to Louisiana prisoners in punitive isolation where they could shower with soap daily. Mattresses and blankets were taken from the prisoners each day and returned later that evening. The …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Mail, Mail Regulations
Okay to Stamp Mail as Originating in Jail by A federal district court in Virginia dismissed as frivolous a lawsuit challenging a jail practice of stamping outgoing envelopes as having originated in a jail. All courts to consider this practice have upheld it. See: Rogers v. Isom, 709 F. Supp. …
Article • May 15, 2007
Mail Between Prisoner and Former Prison Employee Allowed by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit granted habeas relief to a wheelchair bound, paraplegic BOP prisoner in Missouri who was denied correspondence with a former female BOP employee he became romantically involved with. The court held that on the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Stamp Ban, Mail Denial in Segregation Upheld by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit upheld an Arkansas prison ban on postage stamps since embossed envelopes could be purchased from the prison commissary. The court upheld a 30 day ban on the receipt and sending of personal mail to …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Mail, Mail Regulations
No Right to Grievance Procedure, Confidential Media Mail by The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that an Arizona prisoner had no right to a prison grievance procedure. Prisoners have no right to have mail to the media treated as confidential legal mail. Note the media mail issue …
Article • May 15, 2007
Opening Legal Mail Unconstitutional by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that a practice of North Dakota prison officials of opening mail from attorneys that was marked "legal mail" violated due process. The court upheld the opening of non legal mail to prisoners in order to inspect …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Right to Personal Nude Photos by The court of appeals for the Second circuit held that New York prisoners have no right to receive personal nude photos. There is a circuit split on this issue. This ruling (and prison policy) does not apply to commercial nude photos or pornography. …
Article • May 15, 2007
Errors in § 1983 Dismissal, Reasonableness for Indigent Mail Policy Unproven by Errors in § 1983 Dismissal, Reasonableness for Indigent Mail Policy Unproven The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that a U.S. district court procedurally erred in dismissing a prisoner's §1983 action for failure to state …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prisoners' Rights to Correspond and Marry Upheld by The U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, upholding the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, affirmed the rights of prisoners to correspond and marry. The case was a 42 U.S.C. § 1983, class-action suit against the Missouri Department of …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prisoners Have Right to Correspond and Marry by The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, in a class-action suit under 42 U.S.C. §1983, held that the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) policies prohibiting prisoner-to-prisoner correspondence and generally prohibiting prisoners from getting married, violated fundamental constitutional rights. The …
Article • May 15, 2007
Arizona Internet Ban Permanently Enjoined by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On May 19, 2003, the U.S. District Court (D. Ariz.) granted summary judgment, permanently enjoining enforcement of Arizona House Bill 2376 (HB 2376), a 2002 state statute that had made it a misdemeanor for Arizona Department of …
$9,000 Jury Award Against Missouri: Religious Halfway House by A Missouri federal district court upheld a jury's verdict and damage award, but reversed the award of punitive damages. The suit was filed by a probationer sentenced to the Agape House, a state sponsored halfway house in Sedalia, who alleged the …
Article • May 15, 2007
BOP Rule Limiting Detainee's Ability to Publish Books Unconstitutional by A Missouri federal district court held that a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) regulation that limited an unconvicted prisoner's ability to produce and to have published manuscripts violated the prisoner's fundamental constitutional rights. This habeas corpus proceeding was filed by a …
Due Process Required in Mail Censorship by The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit upheld the dismissal under FRCP 12(b)(6) of a California prisoner's lawsuit concerning the censorship of law rook catalogs the prisoner attempted to send his mother. The appeals court reversed the dismissal of the due process …
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