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Jailhouse Lawyers Retain Right to Assist Prisoners

The court of appeals for the ninth circuit has held that prison officials are not entitled to qualified immunity when they punish a jailhouse lawyer for assisting another prisoner. Terry Newell, an Alaska state prisoner, was employed as a prison law library clerk and had a computer in his cell. ...

 

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