Boulder Jail Cracks Down On Inmate Mail
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Posted: 5:48 PM Mar 14, 2010
Boulder Jail Cracks Down On Inmate Mail
A new policy at the Boulder County jail restricts inmates to sending mail on postcards without envelopes. It's the first in Colorado with the policy.
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A new policy at the Boulder County jail restricts inmates to sending mail on postcards without envelopes.

Boulder County Jail Division Chief Larry Hank says the jail is the first in Colorado with the policy.

The policy comes after jail officials said two convicted sex offenders managed to send letters to children.

Jail officials say inmates Gino Rael and Damien Whitehead sent the letters in envelopes that were stuffed inside other envelopes addressed to a third party, who forwarded the unopened envelopes to the children. The unopened envelopes didn't have a stamp on the outside indicating they were from an inmate.

Hank says some jails in Oregon and Arizona also use the postcard system.

(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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Posted by: Jared Location: cos on Mar 15, 2010 at 11:02 AM

How is it that a pedophile's mail goes unchecked when they leave the facility they are housed at? I know all the inmate's mail at CJC is checked and read before being sent out.
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