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"Judge bars sexy tomes from Supermax inmate; Mailroom employees had withheld sexually explicit books and magazines from the prisoner under a 1996 law"

"Judge bars sexy tomes from Supermax inmate; Mailroom employees had withheld sexually explicit books and magazines from the prisoner under a 1996 law": The Denver Post today contains an article that begins, "Mark Jordan won't be receiving magazines or books that contain nudity or sexually explicit material now that a U.S. district judge has decided keeping Jordan from receiving those images in prison does not violate his constitutional rights. Jordan, a prisoner at the ultra-high security Supermax in Florence, sued the U.S. Bureau of Prisons and challenged the Ensign Amendment, a 1996 law designed to prevent federal prison employees from spending resources on delivering pornographic materials to inmates."

I have posted online at this link last Friday's ruling by Chief Judge Edward W. Nottingham of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.

Full post as published by How Appealing on July 13, 2008 (boomark / email).