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Illinois DOC Phone System Upheld

Loaded on May 15, 1997 published in Prison Legal News May, 1997, page 18
Filed under: Standing, Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates, Telephone Monitoring, Qualified Immunity. Location: Illinois.
A federal district court in Illinois held that the phone system used in the Illinois DOC does not violate the first amendment. Four Illinois state prisoners at the Western Illinois Correctional Center (WICC) filed suit against several prison officials and AT&T claiming the prison phone system violated their first amendment ...

 

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