George Parrish and Charles Giles v. Perry Johnson, Charles Anderson, K.L. Cole, and Clarence Turner

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• reasoning that “[a] capricious interference with a prisoner’s incoming mail based upon a guard’s personal prejudices violates the First Amendment”
• noting that “prisoners have some First Amendment rights in receiving mail”
• noting that “prisoners have some First Amendment rights in receiving mail”
• waving of a knife in petitioner’s face, knife-point extortion of potato chips and cookies, incessant taunting, and failure to relay petitioner’s requests for medical care “are all unnecessary acts which result in pain being inflicted”
• waving of a knife in petitioner's face, knife-point extortion of potato chips and cookies, incessant taunting, and failure to relay petitioner's requests for medical care \are all unnecessary acts which result in pain being inflicted\
• abusive conduct included leaving paraplegic prisoner unattended, waving knife at prisoner, extorting snack food items, taunting, and failing to report need for medical care

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).