Washington v. Reno

DAUGHTREY, Circuit Judge.

The defendants, Janet Reno1, Margaret Hambriek2, Kathleen Hawk3, David Woody4, the federal Bureau of Prisons, and the United States of America, appeal the issuance of a preliminary injunction by the district court. Pursuant to that injunction, the defendants are forbidden from proceeding as envisioned with plans to replace the collect-call telephone system available to federal prison inmates with a direct-dial system monitored by correctional facility employees.

Before this court, the defendants challenge both the propriety and the breadth of the injunction. Because…