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California prisons silencing SF Bay View

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

San Francisco Bay View - http://sfbayview.com - California prisons silencing SF Bay View August 2, 2010 by Nick Theodosis U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall sought to protect the practice of free speech by challenging a standard illegitimate dictate of prison authority: censorship of prisoners? mail. In opposition to prison officials? desire to quell dissent and regulate opinion in the yard, Marshall appropriated ? indeed, elevated ? the discussion to the level of moral indignation: ?The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit ? a spirit that demands self-expression. Such expression is an integral part of the development of ideas and a sense of identity. To suppress expression is to reject the basic human desire for recognition and affront the individual?s worth and dignity...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 03, 2010 (boomark / email).