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· 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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