Legal Opinion
Wiggins v. Sargent
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 28, 1985No. 84-1046PublishedCited by 91 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge.
Johnny Clint Wiggins and other inmates from the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction appeal from the district court’s dismissal of their civil rights action. 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The inmates contend that prison officials have refused to allow them to receive religious literature and to correspond with religious leaders in violation of their first amendment rights. They also allege that the officials neither allow them to visit with their religious leaders nor to congregate for religious services. The district court held that since the inmates’…
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