Legal Opinion
Stotts v. Quinlan
District Court, E.D. North Carolina
Decided October 25, 1991No. 86-813-CRT-DEPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALEXANDER B. DENSON, United States Magistrate Judge.
By judgment filed in this case on December 1, 1989 and amended on January 30, 1990, the undersigned, acting pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(c), found the Bureau of Prisons policy regarding mail to federal prisoners from attorneys, courts, and government officials to infringe the prisoners’ rights of access to courts and of freedom of expression and not to be rationally related to any valid , penological purpose. The judgment enjoined the defendant, as the Director of the Bureau of Prisons, “from opening outside of plaintiff’s presence or reading…
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