Hello y'all,

Once again, here I am with a question.

I've read the pdf file regarding mail regulations from the Department of Correction of the State where my pp#2 is incarcerated.

It says that all incoming mail is "scanned".

Does it mean :
a) Scanned with a scanner ? (I don't think so)
b) Scanned with the eyes, meaning, looked at, read over quickly ?

I thought that every little word down to the bottom was read by a CO. Was I wrong ?

Thanks you guys,

D.

You're wrong. There is not enough time or resources to read every piece of mail coming into or leaving any prison facility.

By "Scan", they mean the mail MAY be scanned for contraband or communication relating to escapes, criminal activity, etc.

What is meant by scanned is that the letter is opened checked for contraband and very briefly looked at by a mail room clerk . LD is right there it is not possible to read hundreds if not thousands of letters coming in .

If the person receiving the mail is for any number of reasons from gang membership to having been caught using mail to break rules or commit crimes escape s and all sorts of things and so on their mail is read more careful usually by the STG officer

Sometimes mail is read if a person i s awaiting trail by cops to or some one from the prosecutors office to see if the catch something to use agianst them .Remember they play dirty and unfair and will twist almost any thing into a crime or information on one .


regardless it is always a smart idea to write as if some one is reading it as a boss can read their mail if they and if they sake you down they WILL read your mail in you cell dorm ect

If you are writing a known gang member or other trouble maker yes probably your mail is very carefully read other than that they just check for contraband sand maybe a few words the STG types instruct them to look for/ Bit is is always better to be safe than get into trouble .Some bosses will try to read offenders mail . Usually these are what is known as "inmate" bosses or robo cops .

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REM

hi ase glad to see you back have missed your postings thanks for the explaining it's a good one!!

hugs,whiterose.

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Thank you guys for all the explanation.

I too was skeptical about the man power it would take to read all our mail, but I just had to ask.

I don't know if this is true, or not, but it seems that I have read that they also have scanners that will pick out certain key words, that might relate to escape plots or gang and drug activities. With all of the various kinds of hand writing, I don't know how a machine, like that, would work. But, in this day and age, I suppose that anything is possible.

Xray, that reminds me that back in East Germany, officers of the Stasi would compete in "type-writter identification contests", in order to identify which author wrote a piece of anti-regime literature and on which model of a type-writer... So I guess these days, anything is possible.

East Germany? Prison mail room? Is there a difference? :-))

I would tend to doubt it . considering all the differnt handwriting and typing as well as those whom English is not a first language . That would make for a lot of false positives and negatives . though they do look for certain world and phrases . Some prisoners can mostly gang members can write things that to all but a few will look innocuous . Also there is a gowning number of Hispanic prisoners So it would have to read Spanish also I write in both languages sometimes in the same letter . I have never had a problem .

The STG bosses generally know who is up to no good and abusing mail and a verified gang members and other know "problem offender " mail is going to be read throughly .Though you never know it could be the mail room clerk is in a bad mood and picks out your letter to be read or just nosy and reads a full letter so always write as if a some one is reading your letter that is the best way to avoid trouble .

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If the storm doesn't kill me
the government will

REM

@Daphné

Believe me, the Stasi has had a much more easier game because type-writers were not wide-spread for private persons in East Germany.

Last monday i experienced a surprise as i got a letter from TX in which my pp has had included some articles of a magazine. I didn´t knew that it is possible.