Carrasquillo v. Rosencrans

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that Turner establishes “the appropriate standard of review [a]s ‘reasonableness’ ” (quoting Turner, 482 U.S. at 89)
• concluding that the second Turner factor is satisfied where the regulation prohibited only pictures, permitting inmates to possess “various categories of written sexually explicit materials”
• recognizing that rehabilitating inmates and promoting a non-hostile work environment for corrections staff are legitimate penological interests
• “Accordingly, we decline to accept the formulation of the right as proposed by plaintiffs and, instead, agree with the district court's adoption of the broader right[.]”
• affirming on the issue after the lower court had conducted an “extensive” bench trial
• discussing how under the first Turner factor, the inquiry is “whether it was rational for DOC to believe that at least some [of the behavior at issue] in the prison facility could be prevented through the regulation”

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