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Posted on 04/04/2004 12:47:48 PM PDT by freepatriot32
AUSTIN, Texas (April 3) - Prison inmates in Texas will no longer be able to receive sexually explicit material in the mail and their letters to the news media and government officials can now be read by officials.
The Texas Board of Criminal Justice adopted the new rules on Friday in the first overhaul of prison mail in 21 years.
Gary Johnson, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, said the aim is to "strike an appropriate balance between an offender's privilege to correspond with the outside world" and the prison system's need to prevent inappropriate mail.
Publications such as National Geographic, artistic materials and medical or anatomy reference books might be allowed "on a case-by-case basis."
The other policy change with mail will now allow officials to read letters that prisoners send to reporters and government leaders.
Michelle Lyons, a spokeswoman for the prison system, said some inmates have recently sent threatening letters to state and county officials, as well as reporters.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: cant; explicit; inmates; mail; receive; sexually; texas
ok how many nanoseconds will it be before the aclu files the first lawsuit
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To: freepatriot32
And this is supposed to be news? It should've been law 100 years ago and it should be law in every state. You ain't in jail to be on vacation......
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posted on
04/04/2004 12:51:29 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(I'm not insensitive, I just don't care.)
To: freepatriot32
I'd go further and make the right to send or receive ANY mail contingent on good behavior by the prisoner. If he misbehaves, cut him off from all outside contact for six months or a year.
-ccm
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posted on
04/04/2004 12:57:01 PM PDT
by
ccmay
To: ccmay
man you muist be one of those nazi republicans they talk about so much on the news. you probably spend your free time oppressing blacks and making little old ladys eat dog food huh :-)
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posted on
04/04/2004 12:59:37 PM PDT
by
freepatriot32
(today it was the victory act tomorrow its victory coffee, victory cigarettes...)
To: freepatriot32
What will enforcing and litigating this cost the taxpayer?
I assume, of course, that Texas has solved all other problems connected with its prison system and has determined that this will fix a significant number of those problems which remain.
To: freepatriot32
you probably spend your free time oppressing blacks and making little old ladys eat dog food huh :-) I haven't had any time to raid widow's cupboards lately; I've been too busy pouring toxic waste into schoolgirls' milk cartons. A guy can only do so much for the VWRC.
-ccm
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posted on
04/04/2004 1:26:35 PM PDT
by
ccmay
To: freepatriot32
My response is boo frikin hoo!
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posted on
04/04/2004 1:28:15 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: freepatriot32
The fairies and faggots and their neocommunist friends in the dem party will never stand for this!!
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posted on
04/04/2004 1:31:52 PM PDT
by
Tacis
To: freepatriot32
Hopefully the same amount of time it takes for the TBCJ to tell the ACLU to stick it in their ear.
Excuse me, sex offenders getting sexually explicit material in the mail while in prison? No wonder they re-offend when they get out.
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posted on
04/04/2004 4:29:38 PM PDT
by
Houmatt
(This is not here.)
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