John McCann Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. T. Coughlin, Iii, Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees

U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · Decided 1983-01-06

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IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge: Courts and public officials have long rejected the doctrine that a prisoner is a “slave of the state” with only those “rights which the law in its humanity accords to him.” Ruffin v. Commonwealth, 62 Va. (21 Gratt) 790, 796 (1871). Although the scope of an inmate’s rights is necessarily circumscribed, and at times may be further l…

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