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Alabama Phone System Upheld
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1997, page 11
The court of appeals for the eleventh circuit held that a lower court had erred in finding that a telephone calling list of ten people violated prisoners' first amendment rights. Freddie Pope, an Alabama state prisoner, filed suit challenging a prison policy limiting to ten the number of people Alabama ...
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