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| Judge Backs Florida's Ban On Prison Newspaper |
| By news.wjct.org- Dara Kam |
| Published: 09/09/2015 |
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Inmates won't be reading a newspaper banned by Florida corrections officials anytime soon, due to a decision by a Tallahassee federal judge who said the publication's advertisements pose a threat to security. But in a ruling last week, U.S. District Judge Mark E. Walker also handed a partial victory to Prison Legal News, finding that Department of Corrections officials violated the publication's constitutional due-process rights by failing to provide notification when copies of the monthly periodical were impounded. The wrangling over Prison Legal News, available to prisoners in every other state but Florida, has dragged on for over a decade. Corrections officials have confiscated the publications for six years. "This is not the parties' first rodeo…," Walker noted in a 64-page ruling issued Thursday. Read More. |
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