Does a prison inmate have a right to use a telephone to communicate with a person outside the prison walls?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Low v. McGinness, No. 2:10-cv-2398 JFM (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2012):
Prison inmates retain a right, protected by the First Amendment, "to communicate with persons outside prison walls. Use of a telephone provides a means of exercising this right." Valdez, 302 F.3d at 1048. The right may be restricted if the restriction is "'reasonably related to legitimate penological interests.'" Id. (quoting Turner v. Safley, 482 U.S. 78, 89 (1986).
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