Once convicted and imprisoned, an inmate forfeits a variety of rights and privileges, chief among them his or her personal liberty. However, all inmates retain certain basic human and civil rights that may be suspended only when safety demands.Inmates Ng and Ie are both serving long terms in a maximum security facility. The prison service of both inmates has been unremarkable; neither has been involved in any incident worthy of notice or discipline. Both inmates happen to be conversant in the same foreign language and spend a great deal of time speaking to one another in this language, which is unintelligible to everyone on the prison staff. Corrections Officer Perry orders Ng and Ie to speak only English. When they continue to communicate in their own tongue, Perry punishes each with four days in solitary confinement. This action by Officer Perry is

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