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No Free Speech Protection for Prisoners Who Copy Excerpts from Books
Loaded on April 15, 2013
by Christopher Zoukis
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2013, page 30
Prisoners who copy "arguably inflammatory” or “incendiary” passages from the books they check out from a prison library or are allowed to purchase are not entitled to rely on the First Amendment to protect them from disciplinary punishment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held on August ...
Filed under:
Notice of Rules,
Publications/Books,
Media,
Prisoner Media,
Censorship.
Location:
Wisconsin.
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