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The court noted that prison inmates are protected, under the Eighth Amendment, from cell searches that lack any legitimate penological interest and are solely intended to harass. The court held that there was a valid, rational connection between the prison's ban on inmate receipt of "blatantly homosexual material" and that the ban furthered a legitimate, penological objective of protecting homosexual inmates from injury by the prison population which is traditionally hostile to them. The court held that there was a valid, rational connection between the prison's ban on inmate receipt of "blatantly homosexual material" and that the ban furthered a legitimate, penological objective of protecting homosexual inmates from injury by the prison population which is traditionally hostile to them. |
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