× You've used up your 3 free articles for this month. Subscribe today.

Kansas Federal Court Upholds In-Cell Book Restriction, But Continues Injunction

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Civil Procedure, Injunctions, Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's, Publications/Books, Religious Property. Location: Kansas.

by Matthew T. Clarke

A Kansas federal court has upheld the Kansas Department of Corrections
policy limiting the number of books a prisoner may possess in his cell, but
continued to enforce an injunction against prison officials destroying a
Muslim prisoner's eight-volume English Arabic lexicon.

Alfred Neal, a Kansas state ...

Full article and associated cases available to subscribers.

As a digital subscriber to Prison Legal News, you can access full text and downloads for this and other premium content.

Subscribe today

Already a subscriber? Login

More from these topics:

Idaho Stopped From Repeatedly Scheduling Executions That It Cannot Carry Out, July 1, 2024. Injunctions, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty, Death Row, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Punishment, Method of Execution, Lethal Injection, Lethal Injection Method of Execution.
Kansas DOC Claims Discrimination Against Wiccans Was “Inadvertent”, April 1, 2024. Religious Discrimination, Mail, Publications/Books, Banned Book Lists, Censorship, Prison Mail.
Missouri Expands Prison Mail Ban to Include Books Sent by Family, Friends, April 1, 2024. JPay, Inc., Publications/Books, Banned Book Lists, Prison Mail, Securus.
Seventh Circuit Again Rejects Challenge to Three-Book Limit at Cook County Jail by Now-Dead Detainee, April 1, 2024. Jail Specific, Prisoner Property, Publications/Books, Banned Book Lists.
At BOP California “Rape Club” Prison: Historic Ruling, FBI Raid, Warden Removed, April 1, 2024. Staff-Prisoner Assault, DOC/BOP misconduct, Retaliation for Litigating, Retaliation for Filing Grievances, Whistleblowing, Retaliatory Searches, Retaliatory Segregation, Systemic Medical Neglect, Failure to Treat, Staffing, Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's, Special Masters, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Special Master.
Muslim Florida Prisoner Awarded Permanent Injunction to Grow Untrimmed Beard, March 1, 2024. Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Injunctions, RLUIPA, Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), Right to Grow a Beard.
New York Prisoners with Chronic Pain Win Injunction to Receive Denied Medication, March 1, 2024. Medication, Pain, Injunctions.
California Slowed, But Not Barred from “Dumping” Sick, Indigent Parolees on Public Hospitals, March 1, 2024. Medical, Injunctions, Probation, Parole & Supervised Release, Medical Care/Treatment, Compassionate Release.
Censoring Women’s Health, Feb. 1, 2024. Publications/Books, Censorship.
Misadventures in Mail Censorship, Jan. 1, 2024. Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Grievances, Mail, Publications/Books, Mail Regulations, Due Process, Censorship, Prison Regulations.