Parties: JEFFREY A. BEARD, SECRETARY, PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Petitioner v. RONALD BANKS, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated
Date: 2006-06-28
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Paragraph: 70 - It is indisputable that this prohibition on the possession of newspapers and photographs infringes upon respondent's First Amendment rights. "[T]he State may not, consistently with the spirit of the First Amendment, contract the spectrum of available knowledge. The right of freedom of speech and press includes not only [***714] the right to utter or to print, but the right to distribute, the right to receive, the right to read and freedom of inquiry, freedom of thought . . . ." Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479, 482, 85 S. Ct. 1678, 14 L. Ed. 2d 510 (1965) (citation omitted). See also Kaplan v. California, 413 U.S. 115, 119-120, 93 S. Ct. 2680, 37 L. Ed. 2d 492 (1973) (explaining that photographs, like printed materials, are protected by the First Amendment).
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Paragraph: 70 - It is indisputable that this prohibition on the possession of newspapers and photographs infringes upon respondent's First Amendment rights. N217* [T]he State may not, consistently with the spirit of the First Amendment, contract the spectrum of available knowledge. The right of freedom of speech and press includes not only [***714] the right to utter or to print, but the right to distribute, the right to receive, the right to read and freedom of inquiry, freedom of thought . . . ."
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Paragraph: 56 - Even as the advent of prison libraries increased prisoners' access to reading materials, that access was universally N121* "subject to some form of censorship," such that "inmates of correctional institutions are denied access to books which are freely available to the rest of the community."
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