Berry v. Department of Corrections

OPINION

MEYERSON, Presiding Judge.

This appeal arises from an action brought by prisoners who claim they were denied meaningful access to an adequate law library and therefore were denied the right of access to the courts guaranteed by Bounds v. Smith, 430 U.S. 817, 97 S.Ct. 1491, 52 L.Ed.2d 72 (1977). The trial court dismissed the prisoners’ suit, finding no obligation upon appellee Arizona Department of Corrections to provide a law library for prisoners held in a diagnostic facility for a sixty to ninety day period. Given the number of prisoners who are confined at this particular diagnostic…