The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania continues to have concerns about a new mail policy implemented in an effort to keep synthetic drugs out of state prisons.
Legal Director Vic Walczak says the ACLU is concerned that lawyers will no longer be able to confidentially communicate with their inmates by mail.
Under the state Department of Corrections new policy, all incoming mail is copied, and the copy is then given to the inmates. The state keeps the original.
“The fact that there is now a reproduction of confidential, privileged legal mail that’s in the custody of the DOC, scares the heck out of lawyers and clients,” he said.
Walczak also asserts that the act of copying a document increased the chances of it being inadvertently, or deliberately, read.
The ACLU is preparing a lawsuit to challenge the new mail policy.
Two months ago, six Butler County prison workers were sickened after coming into contact with an unknown substance. Warden Joe DeMore said it was likely synthetic marijuana that was sprayed onto mail that caused the workers to get sick.
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