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| Colorado Department of Corrections Lifts Ban on Greeting Cards |
| By nextcity.org- Cinnamon Janzer |
| Published: 06/07/2019 |
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Cards mean everything to us. First, it’s that our family went and picked the card. Went to the store and thought about us and our favorite colors,” Tiffany McCoy, a 29-year-old inmate at the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility, told the Colorado Independent. For obvious reasons, a photocopy of a hand-picked greeting card or of a drawing that a child sent an incarcerated parent simply can’t be an adequate stand-in for the real thing, yet that’s what Colorado prisoners had to settle for until earlier this month, when the state’s new head of the department of corrections, Dean Williams, lifted the ban on personalized correspondence. In just the fifth month of his job, Williams told Next City that he ended the ban in part because of a lawsuit threatened by McCoy, in part because “there is a great deal of research around family contact and of course that’s one part of the basis of why I changed course and decided to allow original pieces of mail like greeting cards to be delivered to inmates.” Read More. |
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