Milburn v. McNiff

In an action, inter alia, to declare certain provisions and practices of the appellant’s inmate correspondence program unconstitutional, the appeal is from an order of the Supreme Court, Dutchess County (Martin, J.), dated August 4, 1981, which, among other things, prohibited appellant “from requiring inmate correspondence to the news media to be processed under greater restrictions pursuant to Departmental Directive 4422 (III) than other general, non-privileged correspondence”. By order dated January 17, 1983, we remitted the matter to Special Term for a hearing and held the appeal in…