The state Department of Corrections must provide proof of the rehabilitative purpose of a recently instituted policy banning inmate possession of nude images, a three-judge Commonwealth Court panel has ruled.
Shannon Brittain, a 42-year-old convicted in Luzerne County of rape and held in the medium-security Mahanoy Correctional Institution, filed a lawsuit Feb. 12 seeking injunctive relief against the enforcement of the policy and the confiscation and destruction of any nude images he possesses.
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