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Prison Policy Initiative Releases Report on Email Services for Prisoners
Loaded on Feb. 29, 2016
by Derek Gilna
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2016, page 24
Filed under:
Prison Reform,
Computers,
Rehabilitation/Recidivism,
Telephone Rates,
Family.
Location:
Massachusetts.
The non-profit, Massachusetts-based Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) has released a comprehensive study on communication options for prisoners, focusing on email services while also citing issues related to phone calls, visitation and postal mail. According to the January 2016 report, a common thread among these communication options is the creative methods ...
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