Access to Elected Officials Denied

This is my second letter to your organization. I received a letter from you about a month ago. I would like to receive your newsletter. Also I am having problems with my other mail being rejected by the mail room here at WSP [Washington State Penitentiary]. I wrote to our legislature and asked for contact information to our elected lawmakers for my state. Now the mail room is improperly labeling this directory a telephone book and not allowing me to have it. This to me seems flatly wrong - like every other policy. We only have 3 hours per week of law library access. So I am trying to grieve this along with the mail issue. If you have any information on these subjects please send it along. Everyone needs a hand battling the diabolical Mechanism. Thank you for your time and attention and have a nice day.

-- a Washington prisoner, May 2005

MIM responds: We sent this comrade a copy of our prison censorpack with information on how to battle censorship behind the bars. Censorship is a major focus of MIM's Prisoner Legal Clinic and we always welcome reports of censorship in the pages of Under Lock and Key as well as updated information on winning such battles. MIM is actively tracking censorship in prisons all around the country in an effort to further coordinate this struggle.