NICHOLS v. HOFMANN

No. 08-510.

998 A.2d 1040 (2010)

2010 VT 36

James NICHOLS, Kirk Wool and All Other Vermont Inmates Similarly Situated v. Robert HOFMANN, Commissioner of Corrections.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

April 30, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew F. Valerio, Defender General, and Dawn Seibert, Prisoners' Rights Office, Montpelier, for Plaintiff-Appellant Nichols.

William H. Sorrell, Attorney General, and Jon Jeffrey Tyzbir, Assistant Attorney General, Montpelier, for Defendant-Appellee.

Present: REIBER, C.J., DOOLEY, JOHNSON, SKOGLUND and BURGESS, JJ.


DOOLEY, J.

¶ 1. Plaintiffs, prison inmates housed at the Lee Adjustment Center, a privately operated prison in Beattyville, Kentucky, appeal the dismissal of their petition for injunctive relief seeking both the right to use debit cards for telephone calls and the availability of free postage stamps. We reverse and remand.

¶ 2. Plaintiffs were convicted and sentenced in Vermont and then transferred to the Kentucky prison pursuant to a contract between...

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