Crofton v. Roe

SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:

Clayton Crofton is a Washington State prisoner. He filed this action pro se and obtained an injunction against Washington Prison officials. The injunction bars enforcement of a Washington Prison Regulation that prohibits the receipt by a prisoner of any book, magazine, or other publication, unless the prisoner ordered the publication from the publisher and paid for it out of the prisoner’s own prison account. The district court granted injunctive relief because the regulation bars future gifts of publications. It denied Crofton’s claim for damages because Crofton had…