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| Kentucky prisons no longer permitted to ban “gay mail” |
| By metroweekly.com- John Riley |
| Published: 06/09/2016 |
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Inmates in Kentucky scored a victory after the state’s Commissioner of Corrections declared that the Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex may not enforce a mail policy keeping them from receiving books, magazines or reading materials that “promote homosexuality.” According to the ACLU, which wrote the commissioner about the enforcement of the policy in March, the medium-security prison in West Liberty, Ky., used the policy to confiscate inmates’ mail 13 different times over a four-month period in 2015. The ACLU was first alerted to the policy by an internal memo obtained through the state’s Open Records Act. It allowed Warden Kathy Litteral to direct prison staff to confiscate any material that dealt with or referenced homosexuality in any way. The ban applied to personal letters, photographs — even those that were not sexually explicit — and gay-themed magazines or books. The ACLU argued that the ban violates prisoners’ First Amendment rights and that while prison officials are given some leeway in restricting inmates’ mail if they have safety concerns, they cannot restrict it because they disapprove of the content. Read More. |
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