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WIGGINS v. SARGENT

No. 84-1046.

753 F.2d 663 (1985)

Johnny Clint WIGGINS, James Martin Garner and Edward Eugene Little, Appellants, v. Willis SARGENT, Warden; Larry Norris, Assistant Warden; Robert Tansy, Assistant Warden; and Major Larry Young, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellees. Robert FROST, Terry Wilson and Bobby Joe Fruit, Appellants, v. A.L. LOCKHART, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction; and Willis H. Sargent, Warden, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided January 28, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Harrod Berry, Little Rock, Ark., for appellants.

A. Carter Hardage, Little Rock, Ark., for appellees.

Before ARNOLD, Circuit Judge, HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge, and JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

Johnny Clint Wiggins and other inmates from the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction appeal from the district court's dismissal of their civil rights action. 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The inmates contend that prison officials have refused to allow them to receive religious literature and to correspond with religious leaders in violation of their first amendment rights. They also allege that the officials neither allow them...

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