Corrections Mail Processing News & Articles

• How to prevent drug-smuggling visitors

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  During contact visitation, you are on surveillance detail, so stay alert and never become complacent

• US prisons will photocopy inmate mail to curb drug smuggling

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  Officials would not say if COs will be assigned to make photocopies

• Court: Prisoner mail policy is proper

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  Prisoner mail policy helps reduce the risk of contraband entering the jail and cuts staff time required to check incoming mail

• Pa. prisons to stop copying inmates' legal mail

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  Lawyers said the policy made it impossible for them to communicate confidentially with clients

• Deal near in civil rights lawsuits over Pa. prison mail policy

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  Officials say they're close to settling lawsuits over how the system processes mail sent to inmates by their lawyers

• Contraband control tips for Valentine’s Day

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  While contraband control is a year-round endeavor, facilities can see a spike in trading of illicit goods over the Valentine’s Day holiday

• K-9 sniffs out drugs mailed to Calif. jail

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  The K-9 sniffed out two letters containing methamphetamine

• Returned Christmas cards anger Pa. prison activists, inmates' loved ones

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  Pa. activists are alleging the state Department of Corrections unfairly kept 500 Christmas cards from inmates

• Pa. DOC taking heat for revised mail policy at facilities

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  Legal advocates are promising a federal court challenge if the Pa. DOC does not revisit it's policy on handling legal mail