Archie Bear v. Walter Kautzky

LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

Iowa prison officials appeal the district court’s 1 grant of a preliminary injunction permitting four inmates at the Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP) to communicate with other inmates serving as “jailhouse lawyers,” and to use a discontinued method of inmate-to-inmate legal correspondence known at ISP as the red star system, pending trial of plaintiffs’ claims that a new, more restrictive policy deprives them of effective access to the courts. We review the district court’s grant of preliminary injunctive relief for abuse of discretion. Goff v. Harper, 60 F.3d 518, 520 (8th…