I am writing you to forward the address of the warden of this camp. Recently both MIM Notes and theory "A Spiral Trajectory" were denied/censored. I was notified that the materials were being returned until you forwarded a copy of the mailing envelope. Currently I am filing a 602 grievance on the issue. I am also prepared to fight for the long hall. I am in need of any and all materials that are available on censorship. Please forward this information my way. Certainly legal action is an option with regard to the infringement of educational materials being received from MIM.
Currently this administration is using a standard of if mail comes from a non-profit organization that it can be destroyed without notice to the inmate. I am in disagreement with this procedure and I am appealing this too! This rule comes out of the operational procedures manual.
Be sure to include this in your letters of support that should be sent to the warden Darrell G. Adams, at this institution. Certainly they believe we inmates have no support on the outside so it will come as a shock when they find themselves being sued for a violation of civil liberties, and an obstruction of Federal mail guidelines. The postmaster general will also be involved, because they delivered the mail. The U.S. Marshal will also be serving the Warden of this institution. Before all of this can happen we must exhaust administrative remedies (in effect give them a chance to refrain from censorship of MIM materials). I will let you know what happens as it happens.
-A California prisoner at SATF Corcoran, July 2003
MIM adds: This same MIM Theory journal was censored once before by SATF officials. In response to a protest letter the administration backed down on a previous policy requiring all educational material to first be approved by the Community Resource Manager. This prisoner was assured that the policies had changed and SATF would be allowing in educational material again. As can be seen from his letter above, all that has changed is the excuse for the censorship.
Letters of protest can be sent to:
Warden Darrell Adams
CSATF PO Box 5246
Corcoran, CA 93212