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MAIN ROAD v. AYTCH

No. 75-1010.

522 F.2d 1080 (1975)

MAIN ROAD, an unincorporated association, by Grady Dyches, et al. v. Louis S. AYTCH, Superintendent, Philadelphia Prisons. Appeal of Franklyn X. PRILLERMAN et al.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided August 12, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Claudia Kapustin, Asst. City Sol., James M. Penny, Jr., Asst. City Sol., Raymond Kitty, Deputy City Sol., Sheldon L. Albert, City Sol., for appellee.

Theodore Clattenburg, Jr., Elliot B. Platt, Community Legal Services, Inc., Philadelphia, Pa., for appellants.

Before ADAMS, ROSENN and HUNTER, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ADAMS, Circuit Judge.

On this appeal the principal issues pressed concern the constitutional right of freedom of speech enjoyed by persons incarcerated in an institution where a majority of the prisoners are unconvicted persons held pending trial.

The first question is whether a prison superintendent may preclude prisoners in such institutions from having face-to-face contact with the...

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