PRISONERS UNION v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

Docket No. 54007.

135 Cal.App.3d 930 (1982)

185 Cal. Rptr. 634

PRISONERS UNION et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

September 17, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Michael R. Snedeker and Smith & Snedeker for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, William D. Stein, Assistant Attorney General, Karl S. Mayer and Thomas P. Dove, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

GRODIN, P.J.

Appellant Prisoners Union is a nonprofit organization concerned with the welfare of prisoners and their families. By this action for declaratory and injunctive relief, it and certain of its members challenge the power of state prison officials to ban it from distributing informational literature to visitors of inmates in a public parking lot located on prison property but outside prison walls. We hold that such...

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