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ACLU Hails Prisoner Rights Decision-Sixth Circuit Lambastes Michigan Department

In a searing opinion today, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the District Court ruling that restrictions on prison visitation imposed in 1995 violated prisoners’ rights on several grounds, including freedom to associate, cruel and unusual punishment and due process of the law.

Judge Orders Prison Staff to Stop Reading Mail Between Prisoners and Lawyers

Representing Michigan prisoners, the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Prison Project filed objections to MDOC’s legal mail policy that was revised shortly after the Anthrax threats that followed the attacks of September 11, 2001.