Legal Opinion
Cosco v. Uphoff
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided November 22, 1999No. 19-2102PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Per curiam
Appellants, eight pro se Wyoming prison inmates, 1 appeal from a district court order under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6) dismissing their civil rights complaint against several employees of the Wyoming Department of Corrections. We affirm.
While incarcerated, appellants have acquired personal property, including “hobby” and legal materials, which they kept in their cells. Shortly after the murder of a corrections officer on June 26, 1997, appel-lees adopted a policy that limited the amount of property prisoners could keep in their cells. The new policy provided for the storage of unauthorized…
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3Cited by61 opinions
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