finding that newspapers and magazines allowed in a prison carried extensive coverage of riots to the point where the district court could take judicial notice of such coverage
How later courts described this case
- finding that newspapers and magazines allowed in a prison carried extensive coverage of riots to the point where the district court could take judicial notice of such coverage
- finding that newspapers and magazines allowed inside a prison gave extensive coverage of riots and the district court could take judicial notice of such coverage
- Ebony, Sepia, Pittsburgh Courier, and Amsterdam News which are published primarily for black readers were banned; mágazines were restricted to U.S. News and World Report, Sports Illustrated, Reader’s Digest, National Geographic, Outdoor Life, Saturday Evening Post, and Pocket Crossword Puzzles
- Ebony, Sepia, Pittsburgh Courier and Amsterdam News which are published primarily for black readers were banned; magazines were restricted to U.S. News and World Report, Sports Illustrated, Reader's Digest, National Geographic, Outdoor Life, Saturday Evening Post and Pocket Crossword Puz zles
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
HOOPER, District Judge
(concurring) .
I thoroughly concur in the disposition made of this case as shown in the above opinion. Until the District Court, however, makes more complete findings of fact, I can not agree with all of the inferences made in the above opinion as to intentional discrimination. I am advised by the Administrative Office that “of the 1088 prisoner cases reported during the first half of the fiscal year 1967, there were 515 that were based on alleged violations of civil rights,” and that “the growth in the number of these cases in the last few years has been phenomenal.” The situation calls for careful consideration upon the part of both prison officials and judges.