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 David Hudson serves as an attorney for the First
Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. The Center, which is funded
by the Freedom Forum, seeks to foster a greater public understanding and
appreciation for First Amendment rights and values. Hudson writes for the
Freedom Forum's online publication, The Freedom Forum Online, and other
leading publications devoted to First Amendment issues. He contributes regularly to
the American Bar Association's Preview of United
States Supreme Court Cases, the Commercial Speech
Digest and the ABA
Journal.
Prisoners do not forfeit their constitutional rights when they enter
the prison gates. In Turner v. Safley, 482
U.S.
78 (1987), Justice O'Connor wrote: "Prison walls do not form a barrier
separating prison inmates from the protections of the Constitution."
However, because prisoners are in the unique position of being under
government supervision 24 hours a day, some contend that prisoners are the
persons most in need of judicial review to protect the constitutional
freedoms they still possess.
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