United States Eighth Circuit

Injunctive relief, permitting prisoners to communicate with other inmates serving as "jailhouse lawyers" and to use a discontinued method of inmate legal correspondence, was proper where defendants failed to show an absolute ban on inmate legal correspondence served a legitimate penological purpose and made no showing of abuse of the system.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/04/2002
• Published 10/04/2002

Judges

• LOKEN, Circuit Judge., Before WOLLMAN, RICHARD S. ARNOLD, and LOKEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William A. Hill, argued, Asst. Atty. Gen., Des Moines, IA, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bruce D. Nestor, argued, Iowa City, IA, for appellee.