Dear MIM:
Thanks for coming into my life in a time of personal trouble. Your letter showed me the way back onto the path I once was on years ago. The prison here has come out with a new rule that prisoners cannot use postage stamps as currency to pay for products or services, and the rule said that if postage stamps are placed in outgoing mail for this purpose it will be deemed contraband. This is not a security threat because some prisoners don't receive money from home but they receive stamps to purchase books, magazines, etc.
--A prisoner in Florida, December 2004