Kenneth Gregory Thompson, Jr. v. Linda Patteson

How courts have described this case

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• holding officials could limit access to sexually-explicit materials, even ones that are not obscene, because prisons have legitimate interest in preventing “deviate, criminal sexual behavior”
• rejecting a First Amendment challenge to prior Texas procedures for reviewing and limiting access to certain content in inmates’ mail or publications
• rejecting a First Amendment challenge to prior Texas procedures for reviewing and limiting access to sexually explicit material in mail or publications sent to inmates
• rejecting argument that “prison officials could ban only material that had been declared judicially obscene”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).