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Illinois Prison Guilty of Censoring Free Speech Over Facebook Posts
Loaded on April 1, 2020
by Kevin Bliss
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2020, page 11
Filed under:
Retaliation for Media Contact,
Access to Media,
Censorship,
Internet,
First Amendment.
Location:
Illinois.
by Kevin Bliss
An Illinois federal district court held on September 9, 2019, that Larry Harris was retaliated against when he was punished and transferred to a less-desirable prison because of what his daughter, Amanda Carrasco, posted on her Facebook account.
Harris filed a § 1983 complaint against officials of ...
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