United States Second Circuit

An inmate's history, and the need to forestall security problems in correctional facilities, establish that a decision to institute a temporary mail watch was reasonably related to legitimate penological interests.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/18/2002
• Published 07/19/2002

Judges

• SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge., Before: JACOBS, F.I. PARKER, and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Duaut A. Duamutef, Fishkill Correctional Facility, Beacon, NY, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Marcus J. Mastracco, Assistant Solicitor General, State of New York, Albany, NY (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, Daniel Smirlock, Deputy Solicitor General, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellants.