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Federal Prisons’ Switch to Scanning Mail Is a Surveillance Nightmare

Loaded on Dec. 1, 2021 by Lauren Gill published in Prison Legal News December, 2021, page 38
Filed under: Mail, Police State-Surveillance. Location: Pennsylvania.

The Bureau of Prisons has piloted a program that can give authorities “huge secret intelligence into the public sender of postal mail.”

by Lauren Gill, originally published by The Intercept, September 26, 2021

In a Pennsylvania federal prison, Joe used to trace his girlfriend’s handwriting with his finger as the faint ...

 

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