ROWLAND v. JONES

Nos. 71-1299, 71-1361.

452 F.2d 1005 (1971)

Curtis Eugene ROWLAND, Inmate, Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex, Pen Unit, Appellant, v. Ronald B. JONES, Associate Warden, Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex, Pen Unit, Appellee. Curtis Eugene ROWLAND and Charles McClelland, Inmates of the Pen Unit of the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex, Appellees, v. Warden Maurice H. SIGLER, Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

December 29, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Curtis Rowland and Charles McClelland, pro se.

Con Keating, Lincoln, Neb., on brief for appellees Curtis Rowland and Charles McClelland in No. 71-1361.

Clarence A. H. Meyer, Atty. Gen., and C. C. Sheldon, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lincoln, Neb., for Ronald B. Jones and Maurice H. Sigler.

Before MATTHES, Chief Judge, LAY, Circuit Judge, and HUNTER, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

Two issues are framed in these consolidated appeals : (1) whether state prison authorities may deny access to a newspaper entitled "Muhammad Speaks" and (2) whether a prisoner in the maximum security unit may be denied access to a medallion bearing the picture of Dr. Martin Luther King and the inscription "I have a dream."

The district court ruled that the prison restrictions as to the newspaper constituted prior restraint and were violative of...

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