A U.S. appeals court panel has sided with Arizona prison officials’ ban on sexually explicit material for inmates, denying Prison Legal News' claims of First Amendment violations.
The 9th Circuit panel in San Francisco issued an opinion Friday mostly supporting the Arizona Department of Corrections’ previous censorship of various issues of Prison Legal News.
"We conclude that most of the Department’s redactions of the Prison Legal News issues ... abide by the First Amendment," Circuit Judge Eric Miller wrote. For example, it found the redaction of graphic passages from an October 2014 article were "rationally related" to discouraging sexual harassment of corrections officers.
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