Jabari Mandela v. Donal Campbell

This appeal involves a dispute between a prisoner and the Tennessee Department of Correction regarding the Department's mail policy. After the Department returned two packages addressed to him to their respective senders and denied his request for a declaratory order, the prisoner filed a petition in the Chancery Court for Davidson County seeking a declaratory judgment that the Department's policy should have been promulgated as a rule under Tennessee's Uniform Administrative Procedures Act and that returning the packages was inconsistent with the warden's statutory obligation to "receive" an incarcerated prisoner's property. The trial court upheld the policy and its application to the prisoner, and the prisoner has appealed. We affirm.