#88 PRESS RELEASE - Dear readers, please transcribe + e-mail to EVERY media f' you know of, + info@prisonlegalnews.org; postmaster@writer.org; staff@sentencingproject.org; cs@ndo.com; postmaster@jailhouselaw.org; prisonbooks@gmail.com;info cjwatson@vt.edu; info@penalreform.org

RE: W.D. Wis. U.S. District Court Case No. 12-CV-646-WMC
Nathaniel Lindell v. Gary Hamblin, et alia
- a supermax prisoner's civil-liberties suit against staff, claiming several violations of free speech rights.

Dear ___

You should know of the forenoted case, being litigated by a long-time supermax prisoner (Nate Lindell - he blogs at http://betweenthebars.org/blogs/540/nathaniel-lindell), alleging that his free speech rights were violated and are being violated by prison staff:

1) Denying him two literary magazines (i.e. Poet Lore and Crazy Horse) by deeming them to be "books" - books must arrive with receipts, while periodicals such as magazines need no receipt in order to be allowed;
2) Denying him possession of hardcovered books, specifically his dictionary, which, as a writer/poet, he especially needs;
3) Denying all prisoners access to the prison library's National Geographic magazine because one prisoner damaged one issue;
4) Denying prisoners Inter-Library Loan materials;
5) Denying prisoners access to the W.D.O.C.'s Budget Report, specifically in order to stop Lindell from litigating or writing about waste and fraud;
6) Prohibiting Lindell from donating his excess publications to the PRISON library, while allowing him to donate such to the TOWN'S library;
7) Denying prisoners in a disciplinary confinement status from lending newspapers from the prison's library.

Lindell successful litigated a challenge to a former ban by the W.D.O.C. on newspaper clippings, which the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago affirmed in Lindell v. Frank, 377 F.3d 655 (7th Cir. 2004), a much-cited case. Prison Legal News (www.prisonlegalnews.org) recently ran an article about another convict's case, which Lindell successfully litigated.

You can help him litigate this and other similar cases by simply mailing him a pack of forever stamps or ordering him stamped envelopes and 100 sheets of typing paper from 1-800-236-2611 www.JLMarcusCatalog.com.

*PLEASE print, e-mail + republish this everywhere*

E-mail to staff@safestreets.org, dfathi@npp-aclu.org + www.crazyhorsejournal.org.