Word v. Croce

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that a prisoner does not have a right to a specialized diet while incarcerated, absent religious or medically peculiar circumstances
• finding “[p]risons have an affirmative duty to provide their inmates with nutritionally adequate food” such that a prisoner has a right to a specialized diet while incarcerated due to medically peculiar circumstances
• “[T]here is no question that prison officials may open incoming mail to ensure that no contraband is contained in the correspondence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).