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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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Prison censors

CHICAGO — A federal judge in Illinois partially granted a human rights advocacy group’s motion to compel discovery from the state’s correctional department over the allegedly unconstitutional practice of censoring the group’s legal newsletter sent to prisoners. The department must turn over documents created in 2015, but the group is not allowed to access several state prison mail rooms.

Read the ruling here.

Categories / Briefs, Civil Rights, Criminal, Government

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