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Post by paleone on Aug 20, 2005 20:08:21 GMT -5
in michigan i know it is not read going OUT, but it is read going in..
granted, it is kind if known that mail "could" be read in prisons going in and out but it's not possible to read each and every letter leaving...if you have 400 inmates in a prison and each one wrote 1 letter for a day, let's even say 1/2 of them write one letter, that's 200 letters, and the mail room gets mail each day too, so there isnt even enough time in the day to read all that....usually they skim it, if an inmate is "marked" as in gang affiliations or other things they may be in trouble with, they may monitor them more closely...but i have had some inmates send me letters that are dated and post dated for the same day, which i doubt was read fully, some letters are 5-10 pages long...that's a lot of reading for a few mail room attendants...
now i do know for a fact that in texas they can and do use case talk against them...i had a lawyer tell me that if they know someone is in the system with an appeal or something they will often xerox what is said in the letter and send it to the courts
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Post by cookiemonster on Aug 20, 2005 23:45:03 GMT -5
paleone thats right they don't read all the mail fully, and yes they do skim it they are trained to look for key words in the letters and that also goes for legal mail their not allowed to read it but they can skim it for "security" reasons.
JC
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