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111455P.pdf 02/02/2012 Winston Holloway v. Benny Magness
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 11-1455
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Pine Bluff
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Beam and Murphy, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - civil rights. In suit alleging Department of Correction's
phone contract with a third party vendor violated prisoner's First
Amendment rights because it raised the price of phone calls, the district
court did not err in granting the defendants' motion for summary
judgment, as the Constitution does not prohibit charging prisoners for
essential services, at least in the absence of a showing that the result is a
severe deprivation of a fundamental right, and plaintiff failed to show the
arrangement was a significant infringement of his right to communicate
with the outside world.