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| How a Maine inmate’s blog tests limits of free speech for prisoners |
| By bangordailynews.com |
| Published: 06/24/2015 |
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While Randall Daluz stood trial last September for killing three people and leaving their bodies in a burning vehicle outside Bangor, he started his religious blog, The Journal of a New Creation. Because Daluz has no Internet access in the Penobscot County Jail, the wife of his spiritual adviser agreed to post his writings for him. This exercise of free speech may not go against the jail’s rules. But when Daluz is transferred to the Maine State Prison in Warren following sentencing, his online postings may run afoul of a state Department of Corrections policy that prohibits inmates from publishing their writings under a byline. His blog has garnered national attention and sparked debate about free speech in U.S. prisons and to what extent prisons can control prisoners’ First Amendment rights in the interest of security. “Prisons are allowed to limit speech under very narrow circumstances,” Ken Paulson, president of the First Amendment Center at the Newseum, told news website Fusion.net. “They generally have to show strong justification for limiting speech that has nothing to do with the speech itself, and they need to prove that it somehow has to do with the security within the prison.” Read More. |
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