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Article: Screening inmate mail for threatening or dangerous materials.
- Article from:
- Corrections Today
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
- Author:
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"Governor's mail booby-trapped!" So began one of the hundreds of newspaper headlines that appeared after apparent letter bombs were sent to numerous state governors. The letters were indeed booby-trapped; they contained incendiary devices rigged with matches set to ignite when the contents were removed. What was surprising was that the letters came from a correctional facility in Nevada. The details of the case are still under investigation, but the question that lingers, regardless of the outcome, is how to prevent similar dangerous mail from ever leaving the walls of a correctional facility.
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