Smith v. Department of Corrections

Pursuant to ORS 183.400, 1 petitioner, an inmate of a Department of Corrections (DOC) facility, challenges a number of rules in OAR chapter 219, division 131, that govern incoming and outgoing inmate mail. 2 He asserts that several rules violate Article I, section 10, of the Oregon Constitution and the federal Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution because they deprive inmates of a “meaningful opportunity to contest rejections, confiscations and censorship of incoming mail”; that certain rules that prohibit inmates from sending and receiving particular materials violate the…