CASE STUDIES
1. The regulations in a prison allow prisoners to receive and send letters without
censoring. The police or prosecutor approaches the prison director to ask that
the letters of a particular prisoner be censored because they have reason to believe
that one of his correspondents is planning to commit a crime. What should the
director do?
2. A prisoner who is a foreign national is serving a long sentence for drug offences. She
can write only in her own language. No one in the prison understands this language.
The woman wants to write to and receive letters from her family. What arrangements should the prison authorities make to allow her to do so without threatening
the security of the prison?
3. Prisoners are allowed to send letters without censoring. The husband of a prisoner
contacts the prison director to say that neither he nor their children wish to receive
any further letters from the prisoner. The husband asks the director to ensure that
she does not send them any letters. What should the director do?
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