Inmates challenging their confinement in special prison units where their communications are monitored non-stop will get one more chance to revive their case against the Federal Bureau of Prisons Tuesday.

Lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights will try to convince a three-judge panel that placement in a "Communication Management Unit" represents a "fundamental disruption" to their clients' liberty interests, a fate far more troublesome and stigmatizing than the typical response to inmates who misbehave.

"It is prolonged, it is rare and it is stigmatizing," CCR lawyer Rachel Meeropol wrote in filings with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. ...

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