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Media Interview Protected Free Speech
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1999, page 11
A federal district court in Pennsylvania held that the transfer of a prisoner for his participation in a pre-authorized media interview and his subsequent correspondence with the newspaper reporter violated the prisoner's constitutional rights. Prison officials were denied qualified immunity and the prisoner was awarded damages, but the court determined ...
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