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Know Your Rights: Publications Sent by Mail (2012)

  • Organization: American Civil Liberties Union
  • Date Created: Tuesday, December 04, 2012
  • Submitted: Tuesday, December 04, 2012
  • Attachment(s): LINK

Restrictions on prisoners' access to publications cannot be arbitrary; they must be "reasonably related to legitimate penological interests." That said, in practice, courts often will accept the judgment of prison authorities in deciding whether censoring a publication is reasonable.

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