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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court struggled Monday with whether states can keep troublesome inmates from reading secular newspapers and magazines.
Pennsylvania prison officials urged the high court to allow them to use access to newspapers and magazines as an incentive to get inmates to behave themselves.
The "bottom line" in the case, as Justice Stephen Breyer put it, is whether the court should interfere and tell the state how to manage its inmates, or whether prison officials have gone too far and infringed on the free-speech rights of prisoners.
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