In this episode we look at a new policy in San Mateo County Jail that restricts prisoner access to letters other than digital scans that they cannot have at their bedside – it’s a policy justified by an overplayed outcry that prisoners are receiving drugs through mail while in reality, the majority of drugs inside jails are trafficked there by guards themselves. Along with other justice-minded organizations, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is vocally opposing the policy. We’re joined by Hannah Zhao, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation focusing on criminal justice and privacy issues, with prior experience representing criminal defendants on appeal in state and federal courts in New York, Illinois, and Missouri.

Read the Electronic Frontier Foundation statement here: https://supporters.eff.org/civicrm/mailing/view?reset=1&id=11813

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