Opinion ID: 602239
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Wright's prior restraint claim

Text: 14 Wright bases this claim on one of the proffered reasons for placing him in administrative segregation: Wright's efforts to publish the Red Dragon newsletter, which allegedly advocated armed overthrow of the United States. 15 A prison inmate retains those first amendment rights that are not inconsistent with his status as a prisoner or with the legitimate penological objectives of the corrections system. However, the associational rights of prisoners 'may be curtailed whenever the institution's officials, in the exercise of their informed discretion, reasonably conclude that such associations ... possess the likelihood of disruption of prison order or stability ...'  Rizzo, 778 F.2d at 532 (quotations and citations omitted). Wright has not established that if indeed this was the reason he was placed in administrative segregation, it was not within the prison officials' informed discretion to reasonably conclude that the publication and circulation of the Red Dragon within the prison possessed the likelihood of disruption of prison order or stability.