Here's A Ringing Endorsement Of Our Jails....

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5187647/Abu-Hamza-supermax-prefers-Belmarsh.html
Time to model our jails on the US?

[1581960]

I noticed the heading "ringing endorsement" just after reading this! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42383351

[nailit]

Naomi, yes usually, but for some reason (in shrewsbury prison) we could post our letters sealed. Incoming mail was checked though. When in Liverpool nick we had to post our letters unsealed

[naomi24]

Thanks.

[piggynose]

nailit, are you a reformed character now? has been inside taught you a lesson, or made you bitter?

[CrapAtCryptics]

The only letters that should be posted out sealed are those to accredited legal representatives so that prison is in error. This is prevent inclusions and allow the contents to checked but time/staffing constraints only allow for the briefest of scan before sending.

[EDDIE51]

In the prison I worked in the letters out had to be handed to a warder unsealed, but they very rarely looked at them. Normally the warder just sealed them and put them in the mail.
As to letters in they were opened but just to check that drugs or cash were not included , they were not read unless the prisoner asked for them to be read. One of my main jobs was writing letters for and reading letters to inmates who were illiterate , but I worked for an agency I was not prison staff . I think that was why the inmates trusted me rather than the screws.

[naomi24]

^Like the Saudis trusted you more than anyone else. Me? Not a word! Another large pinch of salt .....

[nailit]

//The only letters that should be posted out sealed are those to accredited legal representatives so that prison is in error//
I served 3 sentences in Shrewsbury nick and always found it odd that we could post our letters sealed but assumed that they were more interested with what was coming in than what was going out.

[nailit]

Naomi, don't know why you doubt EDDIE? Civilian staff in prisons are always more trusted than the screws.

[naomi24]

nailit, experience....