A federal judge in Harrisburg has struck down a new state law restricting prisoners’ speech, ruling it is unconstitutional both on its face and as applied to those who challenged it.
U.S. District Chief Judge Christopher Conner of the Middle District of Pennsylvania was critical of just about every aspect of the Revictimization Relief Act, which was passed last year and granted authority to crime victims, district attorneys and the state’s attorney general to restrain speech that “perpetuates the continuing effect of the crime on the victim,” according to the text of the law.
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