Rutherford v. Hutto

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• stating that “[t]he ‘constitutional right to be ignorant’ or ‘the constitutional right to remain uneducated’ which petitioner postulates, simply does not exist.”
• Department's policy requiring inmates who have not achieved fourth grade education to attend the Department's school did not violate inmate's First Amendment rights and did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment under the eighth amendment

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