Legal Opinion · Dissent
Banks v. Beard
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided February 25, 2005No. 03-1245PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1DissentAlito, Circuit Judge
OPINION OF THE COURT
FUENTES, Circuit Judge.
Ronald Banks, on behalf of himself and all other Level 2 prisoners confined in the Long Term Segregation Unit (“LTSU”) of the State Correctional Institution at Pittsburgh (“SCI Pittsburgh”), challenges the constitutionality of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections’ (“DOC”) policy banning access to newspapers, magazines and photographs for Level 2 inmates, arguing that the policy violates the prisoners’ free speech rights under the First Amendment.
The District Court granted summary judgment to the defendant and upheld the policy as reasonably…
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