Please forward.

This is on the web at:
http://cann.com/b1/messages/26/26521.shtml

Can mail web copies to inmates. [Kay Lee]

This is important news for prisoners and those who write them. Mail CAN include
photocopies and printouts from the internet.

Kay Lee's email subject line: FOIA REVEALS INTERNET IS NOT BANNED IN FLORIDA
PRISONS!

Also see:
*Drug War Gulags in the USA. Horrors. Links list. U.S. prison industrial
complex. Revised.
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/gulags.htm

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DATE: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 16:21:02
From: "KayLee" <klee@...>
To: "Michael Moore" <moore.michael@...>

Dear Mr. Moore:

THE INTERNET IS NOT BANNED IN FLORIDA PRISONS!

I sent out an Freedom of Information request last week, because my own
letters printed out from my own website were rejected by several
prisons, including Desoto, Quincy, Taylor, and most especially
Hamilton, where I have 20 correspondents. Reasons were "internet
material" and "not from publisher."

The men who had their letters returned (those who were aware there had
been a letter sent back since many weren't even notified) wrote me
with information about guard remarks concerning our project. I will
fight for the safety of these inmates.

From Hamilton: "The guard came with a printout of my page on the
website. He say, "What do you have to say about this?" I replied,
'Every word I said is true and retaliation will not save you because
everyone already knows!' I'm still okay."

A mother called me to tell me a guard at Taylor offered to get her son
a pair of much needed shoes if he "would not write to that woman
anymore."

From Hamilton: "This camp won't allow none of us the internet material
you sent us. The rules, they say, are NO Internet Material."

From Taylor: "Inmate mail is given to the same officer's we've been
telling you about. The officers we try to write up are the same
officers that pick up and give us our mail. I have been supposed to
see medical about an injury sustained during a seizure. Officer
Buchanan told me today to have one of my friends on the website send
me a doctor. All the officers know about the website."

I suggest you send word down that no more retaliation and threats will
be tolerated! I just know, Mr. Moore, that you want clean fair
prisons like the rest of us.

I figure the DOC owes me - at 37 returned letters, each carrying 2
stamps apiece, a total of $24.42. I am a poor woman and would
appreciate enough postage to cover the losses your employees'
ineptitude caused.

Kay Lee
###############################

This is the reply to my FOIA request for the statures and rules.

FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
2601 Blair Stone Road * Tallahassee, FL 32399-2500
An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer

Governor JEB BUSH
Secretary MICHAEL W. MOORE
http://www.dc.state.fl.us

June 7, 2000

Ms. Kay Lee
2513 Larry Court
Eau Gallie, Florida 32925

Dear Ms. Lee:

The Department of Corrections has no ban on Internet material. There
may have been some confusion due to a provision in the admissible
reading material procedure, which indicates that persons who download
materials from the Internet are not publishers. That provision was
intended only to prohibit inmates from receiving downloaded copies of
magazines in violation of the rule that requires that such
publications be received from the publisher only. Some staff may have
incorrectly applied this to routine mail as well.

The department in in the process of clarifying this matter by
promulgating changes to the routine mail rule which specifically allow
for limited enclosures in routine mail, regardless of source, so long
as no content regulations are violated. The department will also
clarify the language in the admissible reading material procedure.

Sincerely,
Giselle Lylen Rivera
Assistant General Counsel

GLR/es
#####################################
Original scanned copy of the letter will be posted at
http://www.angelfire.com/fl4/prison/internet.html


Thought all of you might want to use this information and be aware
that the DOC is now looking at "clarifying" the rules. Keep your eyes
open.

Call the prisons, write the inmates: WE ARE ALL WRONG! INTERNET
MATERIAL IS ALLOWED IN FLORIDA!

Stand Up And Fight Back!

Kay Lee
2613 Larry Court
Eau, Gallie, Florida 32935
321-253-3673

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live in. Won't you do the same?
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