Kentucky Department of Corrections v. Thompson

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1989-05-15

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Justice Kennedy, concurring. I concur fully in the opinion and judgment of the Court. I write separately to note that this case involves a denial of prison access to particular visitors, not a general ban on all prison visitation. Nothing in the Court’s opinion forecloses the claim that a prison regulation permanently forbidding all visits to some or all prisoners implicates the protections of the Due Proces…

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