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From: CCADP

Subject: INFO ON AZ CRACKDOWN ON PRISONERS

Hi there!

Yes, its certainly true, and we at the CCADP are fighting it in court, along with CUADP and SPR. We've taken a constitutional challenge to court on the issue attempting to get the law overturned.

For more info please visit the following links :

Arizona prisoner pages : http://www.ccadp.org/arizona.htm

Arizona prisoner penpal requests : http://www.ccadp.org/AZ.htm

The PDF file of our July 18th court filing : http://www.aclu.org/court/stewart.pdf

The Motion For Preliminary Injunction we filed this week : http://ccadp.org/preliminaryinjunction.htm

Declaration of CCADP Co Director Dave Parkinson filed last week: http://ccadp.org/AZdeclarationparkinson.htm

The actual law banning prisoners from appearing on the net in AZ: http://ccadp.org/AZ-banned.htm

The letter Department of Corrections officials sends prisoners: http://ccadp.org/AZDOCnoticetoprisoners.htm

CCADPs letter responding to requests for removal : http://ccadp.org/arizona-letter2DOC.htm

ACLUs original letter to DOC threatening litigation: http://ccadp.org/aclu-letter2DOC.htm

ACLUs press release : http://ccadp.org/AZ-ACLUpressrelease.htm

CCADPs July 18th press release on the litigation : http://www.ccadp.org/PR.htm

ACLUs press release on the litigation : http://www.aclu.org/news/2002/n071802a.html

CUADPs press release http://www.cuadp.org/pressrel41.html

SPRs press release : http://www.spr.org/en/pr_02_071902.html

CCADP pages mirrored on European server : http://www.oranous.net/arizona/Arizonapages.htm

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mariagar12000 wrote:

Is it true what I am hearing about AZ going after prisoners who have pen pal sites? I can't believe this! What about unauthorized outside communications?

Please let me know if this is more than a rumor.

Thanks,

Maria

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