Policy Glossary

Personal Legal Documents/Papers

Includes items essential to the preparation of formal legal pleadings such as:
1. All handwritten/typewritten drafts of pending briefs or petitions;
2. Materials that the offender intends to include in the completed pleading to the court;
3. Copies of formal discovery documents relating to pending litigation including transcripts of depositions and verbatim court proceedings.
4. Copies of completed and signed complaints, petitions, motions, or briefs which have been filed with the court and are pending a court decisions or order;
5. Any item of legal mail previously received through any prison facility mail procedure and relating to a pending legal pleading.