Prisoners Have A Right to See Family, Seventh Circuit Says

It is possible for prisons to violate the rights of inmates when they continually deny visitation from minor children without an appropriate basis for the denials, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit said.

The court made the constitutional holding despite finding that the rights of the prisoner here weren’t violated. Although the court had previously come to that conclusion, it did so in an unpublished opinion—meaning that courts bound by its decisions were not obligated to rule in the same way.

Clarence M. Easterling claimed an ongoing violation of his substantive and procedural due process rights because ...