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Jones Vs. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union, Inc.

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 23, 1977

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  1. Price Vs. Johnston US Supreme Court · May 24, 1948
  2. Pell Vs. Procunier US Supreme Court · Jun 24, 1974
  3. Wolff Vs. Mcdonnell US Supreme Court · Jun 26, 1974
  4. Procunier Vs. Martinez US Supreme Court · Apr 29, 1974
  5. Meachum Vs. Fano US Supreme Court · Jun 25, 1976
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  6. Healy Vs. James US Supreme Court · Jun 26, 1972
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  7. Freedman Vs. Maryland US Supreme Court · Mar 01, 1965
  8. Cruz Vs. Beto US Supreme Court · Mar 20, 1972
  9. Greer Vs. Spock US Supreme Court · Mar 24, 1976
  10. Jones v. North
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  11. Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union, Inc. - 433 U.S. 119 (1977) U.S. Supreme Court Jones v. North
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  12. Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union, Inc., 433 U.S. 119 (1977) Jones v. North
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  13. penal institution impose limitations on constitutional rights, including those derived from the First Amendment, Pell v. Procunier
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  14. ban is not impermissible under the First Amendment, for such a prohibition is both reasonable and necessary. Pell v. Procunier
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  15. Pell v. Procunier
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  16. Wolff v. McDonell
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  17. rights, including those derived from the First Amendment, which are implicit in incarceration. We noted in Pell v. Procunier
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  18. recognized the wide-ranging deference to be accorded the decisions of prison administrators. We noted in Procunier v. Martinez
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  19. Footnote omitted.) See also Cruz v. Beto
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  20. was rationally related to the reasonable, indeed to the central, objectives of prison administration. Cf. Pell v. Procunier
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  21. Lanza v. New
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  22. have applied as well Page 433 U. S. 130 where First Amendment values were implicated. See, e.g., Pell v. Procunier
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  23. Cf. Pell v. Procunier
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  24. Saxbe v. Washington
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  25. on account of First Amendment considerations, for such a prohibition is then not only reasonable, but necessary. Pell v. Procunier
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  26. or otherwise interfere with the legitimate penological objectives of the prison environment. As we noted in Pell v. Procunier
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  27. and prison officials or staff, contain the ever-present potential for violent confrontation and conflagration. Wolff v. McDonnell
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  28. threat -- which stems directly from group meetings and group organizational activities of the Union. Cf. Procunier v. Martinez
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  29. ban on political meetings at Fort Dix, that a Government enclave such as a military base was not a public forum. Greer v. Spock
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  30. need only demonstrate a rational basis for their distinctions between organizational groups. Cf. City of Charlotte v. Firefighters
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  31. these reasonable beliefs of appellants are sufficient, cf. Greer v. Spock
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  32. Cty of Charlotte v. Firefighters
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  33. is inconsistent with the deference federal courts should pay to the informed discretion of prison officials. Procunier v. Martinez
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  34. does not convert the prohibitory regulations into unconstitutional acts. See Procunier v. Martinez
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  35. Greer v. Spock
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  36. discussed, we do not have to discuss questions of the First Amendment right of inmates, or outsiders, see Procunier v. Martinez
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  37. numerous occasions that the Constitution and other federal laws protect certain basic rights of inmates. E.g., Bounds v. Smith
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  38. courts, but from those with the most expertise in this field -- prison administrators themselves. See Procunier v. Martinez
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  39. Ruffin v. Commonwealth
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  40. role of the courts. I decline to join in what I hope will prove to be a temporary retreat. I In Procunier v. Martinez
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  41. the rights of an ordinary citizen except those expressly, or by necessary implication, taken from him by law.' Coffin v. Page
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  42. ante at 433 U. S. 132 . While proclaiming faithfulness to the teaching of Pell v. Procunier
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  43. Cf. Healy v. James
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  44. Tinker v. Des
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  45. Edwards v. South
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  46. General Electric Co. v. Gilbert
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  47. U. S. 125 , 429 U. S. 142 (1976), quoting Skidmore v. Swift
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  48. I advocate is precisely the one this Court has followed in other cases involving the rights of prisoners. In Johnson v. Avery
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  49. concluded that the rule was unconstitutional because of its impact on prisoners' right of access to the courts. In Lee v. Washington
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  50. U.S. Supreme Court Jones v. North
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