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November 01, 2015

Prison Legal News Claims Censorship By Tulare County Jail Officials

Prison Legal News magazine has filed a federal lawsuit accusing Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux of violating the free speech rights of inmates by not delivering its publications to them.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Fresno, claims that 336 issues of Prison Legal News were not delivered or were returned to sender with no explanation.

It said the jail won’t deliver them because they have staples holding the pages together, but a Christian magazine with similar staples gets delivered.

Fresno Bee, 10/31/15

Posted by at 06:56 PM in Civil Rights Lawsuits, First Amendment, Jails (EDCA) |

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