Prison newspapers restriction ruling [US SC]

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Prison newspapers restriction ruling [US SC]

June 28, 2006 09:51:00 pm

Beard v. Banks, Supreme Court of the United States, June 28, 2006 [holding that the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections could set regulations forbidding the most difficult inmates from reading and possessing general-interest newspapers and magazines, despite arguments that such regulations violated the First Amendment]. Read the Court's opinion per Justice Breyer, along with a concurrence in the judgment from Justice Thomas, who was joined by Justice Scalia, a dissent from Justice Stevens, who was joined by Justice Ginsburg, and a separate dissent from Ginsburg. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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