MATTER OF MALIK v. COUGHLIN


154 A.D.2d 135 (1990)

In the Matter of Ali Abdul Malik, Appellant, v. Thomas A. Coughlin, III, as Commissioner of The New York State Department of Correctional Services, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

March 1, 1990


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah Schneer and David C. Leven for appellant.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Martin A. Hotvet and Peter G. Crary of counsel), for respondent.

KANE, J. P., CASEY, MIKOLL and YESAWICH, JR., JJ., concur.


LEVINE, J.

In January 1988, Eastern Correctional Facility's Media Review Committee denied petitioner (an inmate at Eastern) permission to read the November-December 1987 issue of The Freedom Press, a publication to which petitioner subscribed. This denial was based on an article in that publication entitled: Experimentation, Genocide, and the Death of Kuwasi Balagoon (hereinafter the article). The gravamen...

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