‘Unbridled discretion’: Sheriff’s book shipping policy for inmates is a violation of the First Amendment, lawsuit says

Background: Gwinnett County Jail YouTube screengrab CBS affiliate WANF./Inset: Louis Correa, owner of Avid Bookshop LLC in Athens, Georgia. YouTube screengrab CBS affiliate WANF.

Background: Gwinnett County Jail YouTube screengrab CBS affiliate WANF./Inset: Louis Correa, owner of Avid Bookshop LLC in Athens, Georgia. YouTube screengrab CBS affiliate WANF.

When two customers came to Avid Bookshop in Georgia last year eager to purchase and then send a few books to an inmate at the Gwinnett County Jail, they thought that would be the end of it and they dropped their packages in the mail.

But, according to a federal lawsuit filed this week by the bookstore’s owner, Louis Correa, that was far from the end of things. Correa now alleges he has discovered a series of unconstitutional practices by jail officials that ultimately deprive both himself as a bookseller and inmates, already cut off from the outside world, of their right to read, educate and improve themselves.

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