CIVIL RIGHTS, CLASS ACTIONS, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

BAZZETTA v. MCGINNIS, No. 01-1635 (6th Cir. April
10, 2002)
Department of Corrections' haphazard non-contact
visitation
policies, including the banning of visits from
certain relatives and
former prisoners, were not reasonably related to a
valid penological
objective and were found to violate the First,
Eighth, and
Fourteenth Amendment rights of prisoners and their
prospective
visitors in a class action suit.

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