PURNELL v. LORD

No. 83, Docket 91-2164.

952 F.2d 679 (1992)

Ervan PURNELL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Elaine A. LORD, Walter E. Kelly, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 3, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold A. Kurland, Rochester, N.Y. (Glenn T. Marrow, Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Martin Hotvet, Asst. Atty. Gen. of State of N.Y., Albany, N.Y. (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., Peter H. Schiff, Deputy Sol. Gen., and Peter G. Crary, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Before OAKES, Chief Judge, FEINBERG and CARDAMONE, Circuit Judges.


CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

In this prisoner's rights case involving inmate-to-inmate correspondence, appellant's privilege to correspond with another prisoner in a different facility was revoked. As a result, appellant sued state prison officials claiming his constitutional rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments had been violated. We understand that male and female prisoners alike often suffer from anomie; and that, for the anxious and isolated person, writing...

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