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JAMAL v. PA. DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

No. 2877 C.D. 1987.

121 Pa.Commw. 42 (1988)

549 A.2d 1369

M. A. Jamal, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Corrections, Respondent.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

November 9, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. A. Jamal, petitioner, for himself.

Janice L. Anderson, Deputy Attorney General, with her, John G. Knorr, III, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Chief Litigation Section, and LeRoy S. Zimmerman, Attorney General, for respondent.

Submitted on briefs August 16, 1988, to President Judge CRUMLISH, JR., Judge COLINS, and Senior Judge BLATT, sitting as a panel of three.

OPINION BY PRESIDENT JUDGE CRUMLISH, JR., November 9, 1988:

The Department of Corrections (Department) preliminarily objects to Mumia Abu Jamal's (Jamal) petition for review.

We discern the following from Jamal's pro se petition. The Department's Publications Review Committee disapproved his receipt of a weekly newspaper, The Revolutionary Worker, during his incarceration at the State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon. Jamal further avers that...

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