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| Illinois hopes labeling prison mail will cut fraud |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 01/29/2001 |
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The Illinois Department of Corrections has started marking mail from prison inmates with a stamp alerting all who handle the mail where it came from. The alert, which states, 'This correspondence is from an inmate of the Illinois Department of Corrections,' was introduced Jan. 4. Corrections officials say the letters are stamped with the alert to protect members of the public who could possibly be the targets of harassing mail from prisoners. 'It's a common practice among prison systems all over the country,' said Brian Fairchild, a corrections department spokesman. 'We want to identify to the general public that they are receiving correspondence with an inmate.' Inmates use the mail to try to defraud people, Fairchild said. By stamping the mail, inmates will not be able to deceive people about the person they are dealing with. But civil libertarians worry the stamp could embarrass law-abiding members of inmates' families and their friends who receive the letters. 'For example, what if the mother of an inmate is in a nursing home,' said Ben Wolf of the American Civil Liberties Union. 'Maybe she doesn't want people to know that her son is in prison.' |
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