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152231P.pdf   08/15/2016  Richard Yang  v.  MO Dept of Corrections
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-2231
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - Cape Girardeau   
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Shepherd, Circuit Judge, and Moody, District Judge] Prisoner case - Prisoner civil rights. In action alleging prison officials unreasonably restricted plaintiff's First Amendment rights by censoring his Chinese-language mail and prohibiting international calling at the same time, the district court did not err in granting judgment for the defendants as the restrictions imposed were reasonably related to the legitimate penological objective of prison security; plaintiff had alternative means of communicating with outsiders and he failed to demonstrate that there was a readily available alternative that would have eased the restriction without imposing undue financial burdens on the state; there was no evidence that the differential treatment provided Spanish-speaking inmates was motivated by race or national origin or that the treatment of plaintiff's Chinese-language mail was a pretext for discrimination.