STEVENS v. RALSTON

No. 81-2310.

674 F.2d 759 (1982)

Steve STEVENS, Appellant, v. George RALSTON, Warden, United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided April 9, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steve Stevens, pro se.

Robert Ulrich, U. S. Atty., Frederick O. Griffin, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Kansas City, Mo., for appellee.

Before HEANEY, BRIGHT and STEPHENSON, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

This is a habeas action arising out of a mail restriction imposed by the warden of the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners at Springfield, Missouri. The district court dismissed the petition. We reverse.

The petitioner was sentenced in Texas in 1974 to consecutive twenty-year terms for robbery and escape and was initially confined in the Texas state prison system. He was transferred to the federal prison system in 1979, apparently for his own...

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