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Prisoners Have Right to Send Letters to News Media

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Retaliation for Media Contact, Liberty Interests, Mail, Mail Regulations, Access to Media. Location: Massachusetts.

The First Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a prisoner has a right to
send letters to the news media. This action was filed by two prisoners at
the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole, challenging the
prison's total ban on prisoner letters to the news media concerning prison
affairs. ...

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