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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.