It's a good news, bad news ruling for Brandon Sample.
Sample lives in a Georgia federal lockup, where he's doing 14 years for a money-laundering conspiracy. And for the last three years, he's been battling the Bureau of Prisons to get computer disks with information about his jail.
Today, Sample can claim victory. An appeals court in the nation's capital agrees that he's entitled to the computer files.
But in the same ruling, the judges say there's nothing in the law requiring prison officials to give him a computer to access the files.
The court says once he gets the disks, the government's obligation is complete. If he reads them, and how he does that, isn't up to the court.
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