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Federal Court Upholds Kansas Prison Regulation Banning Publications Depicting Bare Buttocks

Loaded on May 15, 2010

Filed under: Mail, Sexually Explicit Materials, Censorship. Location: Kansas.

A Kansas federal district court has held that prison officials may censor publications that depict bare buttocks. The ruling came in a civil rights action that alleged the prison policy that banned publications with such depictions violated the First Amendment.

The suit was filed by Lansing Correctional Facility prisoners Michael ...

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