Kurt B. Knight v. George Lombardi, William Armontrout, Warden, Arthur W. Dearixon, Mary Basham

LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

Kurt B. Knight appeals the district court’s 1 dismissal of his § 1983 suit against four corrections officials at the Missouri State Penitentiary. He claims that his First Amendment and procedural due process rights were violated when defendants wrongfully withheld personal letters from a prison guard with whom Knight was suspected of having an affair. We affirm.

Knight is serving a long sentence in the Missouri prisons. In June 1988, prison officials were investigating whether Knight was having an affair with a female prison guard, Loretta Downing, who was then married to…