Articles by Robert Schaeffer

Misadventures in Mail Censorship

Loaded on Jan. 1, 2024 by Robert Schaeffer published in Prison Legal News January, 2024, page 14

Filed under: Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Grievances, Mail, Publications/Books, Mail Regulations, Due Process, Censorship, Prison Regulations. Location: Pennsylvania.

by K. Robert Schaeffer

How an incarcerated writer is fighting a sad new normal of censorship and mail obstruction in Pennsylvania prisons

This essay originally appeared in Inquest on October 19, 2023. The original can be found at https://inquest.org/misadventures-in-mail-censorship/

From August into September 2018, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PADOC) ...

Federal Courts Throw Out Smart Communications’ Mail-Scanning Patent

Loaded on June 15, 2023 by Robert Schaeffer published in Prison Legal News June, 2023, page 31

Filed under: Private Contractors, Prison Mail. Location: Tennessee.

by K. Robert Schaeffer

On October 7, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee granted judgment on the pleadings to Rutherford County and VendEngine, Inc., the contractor that digitizes prisoner mail in its jail, in a suit filed by Smart Communications that alleged infringement of its ...