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Mail Went Digital in Alabama Prisons. Families Are Saying Their Mail Isn’t Being Delivered by by Nayanika Guha by Nayanika Guha, Prism This article was originally published in Prism.   Kenneth “Swift Justice” Traywick has been incarcerated in Alabama and separated from his family for over 16 years. But things …
Number of Narcan Doses Raises Drug Concerns at New Jersey Prisons by Illicit drugs have become so widespread at New Jersey’s prisons that staff administered Narcan, an overdose-reversing drug, an average of more than once a day in recent years, according to an annual report released by the state Department …
Like Prisoners, Most Jail Detainees Now Banned from Receiving Physical Mail by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A February 2026 review by PLN of mail policies at 250 of the largest U.S. jail systems, which together hold over half the country’s detainees, reveals that almost 62% have instituted policies banning …
Article • February 1, 2026 • from PLN February, 2026
United States Postal Service Declares Postmarks Could Be Delayed by On December 24, 2025, the United States Postal Service (USPS) rolled out a new practice regarding how mail is tracked and dated. While for more than 70 years a postmark has been a reliable way of proving when an individual …
Most U.S. Prisoners Now Barred from Directly Receiving Physical Mail by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In just over seven years, changes in prison mail policies proliferating across the country have severely restricted mail privileges at lockups holding the majority of America’s nearly 1.2 million prisoners. According to research conducted …
No Opened Envelopes: Hawai’i Prisons Get New Mail Scanning Technology by The Hawai’i Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) announced in September 2024 that it would purchase nine machines to scan inbound prisoner mail—including legal mail—for drugs. The new scanners claim to detect letters soaked with drugs without opening envelopes. …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Pigeonly Flies Into Telecom Turbulence, Declares Bankruptcy by Pigeonly, Inc., a prison communication startup founded by former prisoner Frederick Hutson, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on January 26, 2024, in United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Nevada in Las Vegas. Pigeonly contracts with jails and prisons to …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Push to Digitize Rikers Island Mail Based on Faulty Drug Tests by Since 2022, New York City’s Department of Correction (DOC) has warned that its Rikers Island jail complex was swamped with letters soaked in fentanyl and other contraband drugs. As a result, DOC officials called to follow the state …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Minnesota Prisoners Getting Scanned Mail, Kept Waiting 18 Months for Tablets by Starting November 1, 2024, prisoners held by the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) stopped getting physical mail, which is now diverted to Baltimore for electronic scanning by private contractor TextBehind. Printed copies of the scans—complete with all the …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
California Prisoner Awarded Over $1.26 Million in Suit Challenging Withheld Legal Mail Which Resulted in Habeas Loss by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 12, 2024, the federal court for the Eastern District of California entered judgment in favor of state prisoner Anthony Penton, adding $788,744.97 to an …
Lawsuit Over Mailroom Abuses by Washington DOC Leads to Policy Changes by A settlement reached on November 1, 2023, between the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) and current or former state prisoners resulted in changes to prison mail policies. While incarcerated at Monroe Correctional Complex (MCC), Adam Bauer, David Cochran, …
Misadventures in Mail Censorship by Robert Schaeffer by K. Robert Schaeffer How an incarcerated writer is fighting a sad new normal of censorship and mail obstruction in Pennsylvania prisons This essay originally appeared in Inquest on October 19, 2023. The original can be found at https://inquest.org/misadventures-in-mail-censorship/ From August into September …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Five Years After Limiting Personal Visits and Banning Mail, Drug Use Worse in Pennsylvania Prisons by As reported by the Harrisburg Patriot News on April 21, 2023, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) implemented a solution to the drug problem in state prisons in September 2018 that has proved cruel …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Despite Official Claims, Stopping Mail to Missouri Prisoners Has No Effect on Drug Overdoses by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart The drugs are coming in the mail. Or so they say. There’s no question that the drugs are coming into Missouri state prisons; an average of 34 prisoner overdoses a …
Article • May 31, 2022
Overdoses Climb in Colorado Prisons and Jails With Drugs Smuggled by Mail, Uber Eats by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead A Denver jail guard was fired on April 29, 2022, after an investigation revealed he allowed deliveries from Uber Eats in which drugs were hidden and later used by a …
Article • April 8, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
HRDC Sues New Hampshire Jail over Publications Banned under No-Hard-Copy Mail Policy by Sam Rutherford By Sam Rutherford On March 11, 2022, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), PLN’s publisher, filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the …
Brief • March 1, 2022
Filed under: Mail Regulations
Benning v. Ward, GA, Order and Recommendation, Censorship, 2022 Case 1:17-cv-00152-LAG-TQL Document 290 Filed 03/01/22 Page 1 of 29 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ALBANY DIVISION RALPH HARRISON BENNING, Plaintiff, : : : : VS. TIMOTHY WARD, et al., Defendants. : : : …
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Indiana DOC Settles Class-Action Lawsuit Over Ban on Incoming Mail Except That in White Envelopes Using White, Lined Paper by On August 9, 2019, an Indiana federal court memorialized the stipulations in a private settlement agreement between the Indiana Department of Corrections (DOC) and a class of prisoners subject to …
Publication • July 28, 2021
Filed under: Mail Regulations
Joint Administrative Procedures Committee, FL, Ltr Re Proposed Changes to Inmate Mail Screening, 2021 WILTON SIMPSON CHRIS SPROWLS President Speaker THE FLORIDA LEGISLATURE JOINT ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES COMMITTEE Representative Rick Roth, Chair Senator Ben Albritton, Vice Chair Senator Loranne Ausley Senator Jason Brodeur Senator Danny Burgess Senator Shevrin D. “Shev” Jones …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
Holiday Cards for Prisoners: Let’s End Collective Punishment in U.S. Prisons by Sandy Rozek by Sandy Rozek Going back to 1991, when Rodney King was beaten by four police officers in California, public sentiment has periodically erupted in a general condemnation of law enforcement. In New York in 2014, the …
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