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Pennsylvania DOC’s New Mail Policy Robs Prisoners of the Personal Touch; Lawsuits Over Legal Mail Settle

Loaded on Sept. 9, 2019 by David M. Reutter published in Prison Legal News September, 2019, page 60
Filed under: Mail, Mail Regulations, Legal Mail. Location: Pennsylvania.

by David M. Reutter

Last year the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PDOC) implemented a policy that prohibits prisoners from receiving original correspondence from their family members and friends. The policy went into effect in September 2018 in response to a 12-day statewide lockdown the prior month after an “unprecedented number ...

 

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