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WA Mail Policy Illegal
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1994, page 10
Timothy O'Keefe is a prisoner at the Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) at Walla Walla. In October, 1993, O'Keefe tried to mail six pieces of outgoing mail as legal mail. The letters were addressed to the prison warden; US Postal Inspector; State Higher Education Coordinating Board; Employment Security Dept. and a ...
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