Marked "Return to Sender"
In what advocates characterize as a communications lockdown, newsletters going to sex offenders who are confined in a state-run hospital have been sent back to their publisher unopened with a “Return to Sender” notice.
“A disturbing trend is developing on civil facilities not allowing our newsletter,’’ said Wayne Bowers, who puts out the quarterly CURE-SORT News, which compiles stories about the latest treatment options as well as legal developments pertaining to convicted sex offenders who have completed their prison terms but remain indefinitely locked up in psychiatric hospitals under civil commitment laws.
CURE-SORT are acronyms for prison reform groups behind the newsletters: Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants and Sex Offenders Restored Through Treatment.
State officials say that the newsletters are normally delivered to hospital residents as long as their names are on the envelope. ..Source..
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