Ervan Purnell v. Elaine A. Lord, Walter E. Kelly

CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

In this prisoner’s rights case involving inmate-to-inmate correspondence, appellant’s privilege to correspond with another prisoner in a different facility was revoked. As a result, appellant sued state prison officials claiming his constitutional rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments had been violated. We understand that male and female prisoners alike often suffer from anomie; and that, for the anxious and isolated person, writing to someone similarly situated helps alleviate their condition and, as a therapeutic tool, advances the goal of prisoner…