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Inmate Magazine Loses First Amendment Case Against Florida Department Of Corrections
By news.wgcu.org- Daniel Rivero
Published: 05/22/2018

A Florida-based publisher of a magazine written by inmates lost a federal appeal of a freedom of speech case against the Florida Department of Corrections, which has barred the magazine from state correctional facilities.

Prison Legal News, based in Lake Worth, is distributed and read in state prisons in all 49 other states, leaving its home state as the only exception. The original case against the state was filed in 2004, and has since wound its way through the courts.

“It basically just drives home that the rights you have as a member of the news media depends on where you're located,” Paul Wright, the magazine’s publisher and editor, said about the decision. “For us it’s a huge issue; it’s why we’ve invested an enormous amount of time and money over the last 10 years against these censorship practices, and that’s why we haven’t given up yet.”

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