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First Amendment Protects Prisoners' Negative Statements About Prisons

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Retaliation, Retaliatory Transfers, Due Process, Ad-Seg Hearings. Location: Colorado.

Robert Gandy is a prisoner in the Colorado Department of Corrections
(DOC). He wrote a letter to Home Depot, a mail-order supplier of DOC
prisoners, about a DOC policy that he thought would illegally impinge on
Home Depot's business. Guards opened and read the letter, for which they
found Gandy ...

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