Does a prison inmate have a First Amendment right to send and receive mail?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Turner v. Munoz, Case No. 1:19-cv-00706-SAB (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2019):
Prison inmates have a First Amendment right to send and receive mail despite the "inordinately difficult undertaking" to exercise and protect that right within a prison setting. Thornburgh v. Abbott, 490 U.S. 401, 407 (1989) (quoting Turner v. Safley, 482 U.S. 78, 85 (1987)).
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