of thirty to forty years for selling narcotics, followed by thirty days further imprisonment for contempt of court, imposed on him March 18, 1968.  The original defendants included the Governor of New York as well as the State Commissioner of Correction, appellant McGinnis; the Warden of Green Haven, Harold W. Follette, who died shortly before the opinion below was entered;1 and the Warden of Attica Prison (now called Attica Correctional Facility), appellant Vincent Mancusi.  Sostre had been confined for one night in Attica immediately after sentencing, them transferred the following day to Green Haven.


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Sostre does not appeal from the dismissal by the district court of his action against the Governor, in which Sostre had asserted the Governor's complicity in racial discrimination in the administration of Newthat morning to mail to an attorney, Miss Joan Franklin of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a letter with handwritten legal papers attached, including a motion for use in the trial of Mrs. Geraldine Robinson.  Mrs. Robinson is described by Judge Motley and the parties on appeal as Sostre's 'codefendant.'  Although she was joined with Sostre in the indictment which resulted in Sostre's imprisonment, they were not tried together.  Follette told Sostre 'he must confine his legal activities to his own incarceration' and accordingly that the motion would not be mailed.  Follette explained that he objected to Sostre's attempt to 'practice law' without a license.  Sostre believed that he had a right to mail legal papers in behalf of