Legal Opinion
Rakim A. Muhammad v. Terry A. Pitcher Dorothy Stiller and Laura Siers
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 21, 1994No. 92-2364PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJones, J., joined by Lively, J.,
SILER, J. (pp.-), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
NATHANIEL R. JONES, Circuit Judge.
In this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights action, Plaintiff-Appellee Rakim A. Muhammad, an inmate at the Standish Correctional Facility in Michigan, challenges Michigan Department of Corrections’ (MDOC) policy of treating inmate mail from the State Attorney General’s Office as ordinary mail rather than as confidential legal mail. The district court found the policy to be unconstitutional. We affirm.
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On September 17, 1991, pursuant to MDOC policy directive BCF-63.03, Muhammad formally requested that prison…
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