· 10/31/1973
Eddie Adams v. Norman Carlson, Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons
Citations
- 488 F.2d 619
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- sixteen months in segregation disproportionate punishment for participation in prison work stoppage
- \[A]n inmate's right to . . . access to the courts is as fundamental a right as any other he may hold . . . . All other rights ar e illusory without it.\
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Judges: Grant, Reynolds, Swygert
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