Give Prisoners a Voice to Increase Prison Accountability

Demetria D. Frank, Prisoner-to-Public Communication, 84 Brook. L. Rev. 115 (2018).

SpearIt

If prisons are about keeping prisoners locked in, it is safe to say that they do an equally good job of keeping the public out. Professor Demetria D. Frank’s article, Prisoner-to-Public Communication, explores how prison mail policy does both: The practice of censoring outgoing prisoner mail keeps some speech from ever escaping the prison, and by default, the public is made more ignorant about prison life and conditions. As a […]