Other jails could follow Boulder County's new mail policy - Boulder Daily Camera
Other jails could follow Boulder County's new mail policy - Boulder Daily Camera
Although the Boulder County Jail recently became the first in Colorado to restrict inmate personal mail to postcards, rather than letters in envelopes, Division Chief Larry Hank said he doesn't expect it will be the last.
Hank, who oversees the jail and decided earlier this year to take away inmate access to envelopes for personal mail, said the Colorado Jail Association has requested copies of the jail's new mail policy because other facilities are interested in following suit.
At an association meeting Friday, the topic sparked a lot of interest, officials said, and several other counties are looking at restricting inmates' personal mail to postcards without envelopes.
The Boulder County Jail's new policy was developed after several inmates, including two convicted sex offenders, found a way to circumvent the "uncensored inmate mail" stamp -- which marks every piece of outgoing mail -- and get unlabeled letters to young girls. Gino Rael, 26, and Damien Whitehead, 33, are accused of stuffing letters in unmarked envelopes inside marked envelopes and sending them to a third party, who then would send the unlabeled letters to victims.
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4 comments:
This mail policy is proff that the people who run jails and prisons are a bunch of morons. Mail can be a big moral booster if handled properly. Inmates mail does not have to be pre opened and read as its done now by the morons.
Ist class mail should be done as followed. Mail call should be held in a large room, in groups of say 50 and could be done by a couple of guards. One calling the name of the letter he holds, then opens and dumps out on a table. The other checks for so called countraband. The letter then given to the inmate.
Countraband enters the prison thru the guards not the us mail.
Because of TWO, ALL get punished? Aren't they making enough on the envelopes? Sad state when the guards are too lazy to do their jobs properly and treat the inmates like humans. No wonder they get no respect from the inmates.
Why don't they use electronic mail similar to the DOC?
By Scott H. Greenfield / Simple Justice blog
Posted by SHG at 10/5/2009 9:24 AM
“Plea bargains are outlets, safety valves for the innocent and guilty alike. If it's bad for an innocent person to go to prison for 5 years, it's worse for ten. Not every defendant has the risk tolerance for trial, and not every innocent defendant has a defense. Don't blame the plea bargain for the coerciveness that pushes a person to willingly slam the prison door on himself. Blame a system where innocent people get convicted, where judges smile as they ignore the Constitution and where criminal defense lawyers pretend they can provide effective representation when they intended to plead the case out from the very first "hello".”
He hit the nail on the head. "...where judges smile as they ignore the constitution...[public defenders]pretend they can provide effective representation when they intended to plead the case out from the very first "hello"." If anyone in the Larimer County District is interested in seeing systemic injustice nipped in the bud e-mail maryellen.pecci@gmail.com
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