Koutnik v. Brown.U.S. District Court CENSORSHIP Koutnik v. Brown, 351 F.Supp.2d 871 (W.D.Wis. 2004). A state prisoner one in confinement, or under arrest, for a political offense. See also: State sued prison officials under [section] 1983 alleging that they violated his First and Fourteenth Amendment Fourteenth Amendment, addition to the U.S. Constitution, adopted 1868. The amendment comprises five sections. Section 1 Section 1 of the amendment declares that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are American citizens and citizens rights by refusing to deliver his outgoing letter and disciplining him for writing it. The district court granted the prisoner permission to proceed in forma pauperis [Latin, In the character or manner of a pauper.] A phrase that indicates the permission given by a court to an indigent to initiate a legal action without having to pay for court fees or costs due to his or her lack of financial resources. , but only with his claim against a prison captain. The court held that the captain's alleged refusal to send a letter from the inmate, whose contents were not gang-related and did not advocate violence or other disruptive behavior, and that the captain disciplined him for sending the letter, were sufficient to state a claim for violation of his free speech rights. (Wisconsin Secure Program Facility, Boscobel, Wisconsin Boscobel is a city located in the Driftless Zone, in Wisconsin's Grant County. Approximately 0.6 mi. (1 km) to the north of the city, across a riparian swamp, is the Wisconsin River. U.S. Highway 61 crosses the Wisconsin River at Boscobel. ) |
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