🧵 A pilot program run by the Federal Bureau of Prisons is outsourcing the prison mail management process to the for-profit company Smart Communications. 
This program first sees Smart Communications convert greeting cards, letters, & other mail sent to incarcerated people into digital scans. The original correspondence, often lovingly crafted by friends and family, is then destroyed.
This new program also forces incarcerated people to access their treasured correspondence as low-quality printouts, or to read their cherished letters from home via screens located in shared kiosks in public areas of the prison (or on a tablet provided by Smart Communications).
While this will be a boon to Smart Communications' bottom line, it’s cruel, unnecessary & threatens the privacy of everyone involved.
Join our friends @JustDetention & demand the Administration protect prison mail & stop padding the profits of the prison industrial complex.
Join our friends @JustDetention & demand the Administration protect prison mail & stop padding the profits of the prison industrial complex.
Please take a minute to share your thoughts on this senseless & unduly punitive policy with AG Garland and the Department of Justice. justdetention.org/protect-prison…
And while you’re at it, we encourage you to make a new pen pal by joining LPP’s Prison Letter Writing Program at bit.ly/lpp-letterwrit…
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