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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