Glennon Hoppins v. Governor George C. Wallace

Glennon Hoppins argues on appeal in his 42 U.S.C.A. §§ 1983, 1985 suit that his right of access to the courts requires that indigent inmates be permitted to mail unlimited legal correspondence at state expense. The state correctional officers contend their stamp policy permitting each indigent inmate two free 20-cent stamps a week and requiring them to pay for additional postage out of their own funds provides adequate access to the courts. The district court held that two free stamps a week provided Hoppins with adequate access to the courts. We affirm.

In Bounds v. Smith, 430 U.S. 817,…