Censorship protest helps prisoner get censored mail

I'm writing to you regarding the response from the officials here about the censorship they've been doing lately. A while back, maybe a week after I wrote to you and put in the 602, I was called to the program office and a CO gave me the copy of the letter and flyer you sent me. A few days ago I got your letter (copy) to the warden, your letter to me (copy), and the response from the associate Warden, apparently he was the one who gave me the copy a while back. Anyway, the response letter states that I was "understanding and appreciative of the explanation and glad to receive the letter." I don't know if my lack of interest to hear their excuses about this "mistake" or my refusal to argue the incident gave that impression, but I was not understanding nor appreciative. I knew the 602 was already in and the paper work will take its course so I really didn't have anything to say to any CO about it. I was gonna go about it by their standards. And for the record, I've yet to get a response.

- California prisoner at Pelican Bay, November 2005