U.S. appeals court communication with prisoners. (Free Speech, Expression, Association).

Curley v. Perry, 246 F.3d 1278 (l0th Cir. 2001). A state inmate brought a pro se civil rights ac on seeking to restrict inmate-to-inmate correspondence in the state's prison system. The district court dismissed the complaint and the inmate appealed. The appeals court affirmed, finding that the inmate failed to state an Eighth Amendment claim. The inmate had claimed that prison officials created unconstitutional conditions of confinement by failing to prevent or monitor inmate-to-inmate correspondence, which was allegedly used by inmates to plan violence against other inmates. The court noted that the inmate had been placed in administrative segregation for his own safety, precluding a showing of requisite deliberate indifference to the inmate's health and safety. The inmate alleged that he had been targeted by members of the "Security Threat Group," a group of state inmates who take retaliatory actions against other inmates. (Central New Mexico Correctional Facility)