They've started photocopying letters at the Federal prisons and want to do it at prisons worldwide.
Check out the Knight Institute of First Amendment Rights and write in about it and you can even right Supreme Court Justice Merrick.
Just a heads up because it's a "pilot" program they've implemented that has quietly gone over its specified time. Make some noise about it because not only are prisoners getting bad, missing, illegible photocopies but they're storing all the scanned letters in a searchable database.
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PA state prisons have been doing this for more than 2 years already.
Not to play Debbie Downer here, but…
The scan and destroy program began a while back in some facilities, and not just federal ones, e.g., Ohio has been doing it longer than the feds have. Re: searchable databases, what do you think JPay, CorrLinks, and the rest of ‘em market so shamelessly to their customers? (keeping in mind that their customers are the prisons, not you or me) The answer? The surveillance and data-mining opportunities within any scrap of communication that traipses through their systems… cataloged forever. And phone calls? Those are all recorded too, once one jumps past all the hurdles to get a call in the first place.
So, sure, all of this takes place amidst the theater of “security” and “crimefighting” and keeping prisons contraband-free. But then, you might find a recent OIG report kind of interesting. It details the 100+ federal corrections officers who’ve been arrested and indicted for, among other things, introducing contraband into prisons, earning the BOP the highest arrest rate for any branch of the DOJ. Kind of tells a different story, doesn’t it?
Thanks for posting this though.
They haven't rolled it out in every Federal institution. I have heard the quality is poor. I'll have to dig into this a little more, thanks for the information.