Inmate Seeks Access to Facebook Under Civil Rights Suit

October 15, 2012

A Pennsylvania prison inmate is waging a novel legal battle — for a supposed First Amendment right to Facebook. Mark Nixon, who is incarcerated in Frackville, Pa., filed a federal civil rights lawsuit after he was denied access to printouts of Facebook pages sent through the U.S. mail, which prison officials labeled “unacceptable correspondence” and discarded.

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