Inmate’s lawsuit against Randolph sheriff dismissed

Nance’s lawsuit was dismissed March 31 by Judge William L. Osteen Jr. of U.S. District Court for North Carolina’s Middle District because Nance failed to file a response to a recommendation by Magistrate Judge Joi Elizabeth Peake, who wrote that the lawsuit failed to demonstrate that the restrictions instituted at the jail in May 2021 were unreasonable.

“It is clear that there was a valid, rational connection between the confiscating of Plaintiff’s books and restricting his access to reading materials and the penological interest in preventing contraband from entering the jail,” Peake wrote.