STEVENS v. GAY

Nos. 85-8594, 85-8678.

792 F.2d 1000 (1986)

James Russell STEVENS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Opal GAY, Larry Hightower and Jerry Thomas, Defendants-Appellees. James Russell STEVENS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Opal GAY, Larry Hightower and Jerry Thomas, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

June 27, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Batson, Augusta, Ga., for Stevens.

John C. Jones, Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for Gay et al.

Before KRAVITCH and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges, and TUTTLE, Senior Circuit Judge.


TUTTLE, Senior Circuit Judge:

BACKGROUND

This is a § 1983 action brought by James Russell Stevens, an inmate serving a life sentence at the Georgia State Prison. When this controversy arose, the prison had a policy of allowing indigent inmates to send three letters per week at the expense of the prison, so long as the letters were addressed to members of the inmate's immediate family.

On July 14, 1981, Stevens sent a letter addressed as follows...

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