Crstnamre
12-03-2005, 08:13 AM
Posted on Sat, Dec. 03, 2005
On prisoner rights, a telling dissent
While protective of free speech, he backed prison officials in an inmate's suit for reading material.
By Emilie Lounsberry
Inquirer Staff Writer
Ronald Banks, a Pittsburgh man serving life for murder, was considered among the "worst of the worst" in Pennsylvania's state prison system.
His prison behavior earned him a cell in a long-term segregation unit, where he could have religious and legal periodicals but not mainstream newspapers or magazines.
Read the whole article here:
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/13316239.htm
On prisoner rights, a telling dissent
While protective of free speech, he backed prison officials in an inmate's suit for reading material.
By Emilie Lounsberry
Inquirer Staff Writer
Ronald Banks, a Pittsburgh man serving life for murder, was considered among the "worst of the worst" in Pennsylvania's state prison system.
His prison behavior earned him a cell in a long-term segregation unit, where he could have religious and legal periodicals but not mainstream newspapers or magazines.
Read the whole article here:
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/13316239.htm