Malik v. Coughlin

OPINION OF THE COURT

Levine, J.

In January 1988, Eastern Correctional Facility’s Media Review Committee denied petitioner (an inmate at Eastern) permission to read the November-December 1987 issue of The Freedom Press, a publication to which petitioner subscribed. This denial was based on an article in that publication entitled: Experimentation, Genocide, and the Death of Kuwasi Balagoon (hereinafter the article). The gravamen of the article is the author’s contention that medical personnel at State correctional facilities use inmates as "guinea pigs” for the testing of "newly invented drugs”,…