Jackson v. Burke

Plaintiff-appellant Nathaniel Jackson alleges that in June 1994, when he was incarcerated at the Clinton Correctional Facility in New York, he asked his mother to mail him various documents that he needed in order to proceed with state and federal collateral attacks on his criminal convictions. The package of documents arrived at the prison, as evidenced by a prison receipt signed “R. Provost”; but instead of being delivered to Jackson, the package was returned to Jackson’s mother in a torn and mutilated condition, with some of the documents effectively destroyed. Informed of these events,…