478 F. Supp. 90 - Fowler v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
January 2003
most recently cited
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Roseboro v. Garrison · Tierney Et Al. v. United States · Woodhous v. Virginia · James G. McCloskey v. State of Maryland · Hoitt v. Vitek
Most-quoted passages
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“Mail to and from prisoners, sent or received by other prisoners, does not have the same strong protection from scrutiny under the First Amendment that other mail receives. Prison authorities may execute the compelling state interest in security by screening inmate to inmate correspondence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Richter
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