Legal Opinion
Jamal v. Commonwealth
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Decided November 9, 1988No. 2877 C.D. 1987PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
President Judge Crumlish, Jr.,
The Department of Corrections (Department) preliminarily objects to Mumia Abu Jamals (Jamal) petition for review.
We discern the following from Jamals pro se petition. The Departments Publications Review Committee disapproved his receipt of a weekly newspaper, The Revolutionary Worker, during his incarceration at the State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon. Jamal further avers that he exhausted his administrative remedy before the Departments Central Office Review Committee, which upheld the decision.
Jamals petition does not challenge the…
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