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No Immunity for Photo Limit
Loaded on April 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2002, page 28
The Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, in a per curium opinion, held that Arkansas prison officials were not entitled to qualified immunity for promulgating a policy that allows prisoners to retain only five photographs in their cells. Len Davis, a federal prisoner in the Arkansas state prison system, ...
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