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Okay to Steal Mail
Loaded on March 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1993, page 2
Two Missouri state prisoners wrote and telephoned US postal officials to complain that prison administrators were "stealing, holding, tampering with, censoring, delaying and destroying" their mail in violation of federal postal laws. The postal officials refused to investigate the prisoners' claims. The prisoners then filed suit against the officials claiming …
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