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State prison drops inmate mail policy
By The Associated Press
Published: 05/05/2008

RHODE ISLAND - A civil liberties group is questioning whether the state Department of Corrections punished an inmate who challenged a prison mail policy as unconstitutional.

The policy, which has since been dropped, required inmates to get approval from prison staff before ordering books and magazine subscriptions. Prisoners would also have to order the subscriptions directly from a publisher instead of having friends and family do it. Read more.

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Comments:

  1. the corrector on 05/06/2008:

    I am surprised that Rhode Island even dropped the policy, does that mean that California will follow suit.


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