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Share: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on G+ Share with email 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.
From August into September 2018, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PADOC) locked down all of its state prisons for two weeks after staff claimed to have been sickened by exposure to synthetic cannabinoids. Without evidence, mail and books were targeted as the primary source of these drugs. In reaction, the PADOC has since required that all incoming mail now be routed through a scanning service in Florida.
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