Tracking Prison Censorship in the United States

"newsletter contains content intended to incite a disturbance"

"newsletter contains content intended to incite a disturbance received in contradiction with BP-03.91"

"newsletter contains content intended to incite a disturbance" (not clear what mail this is responding to)

I received your magazine Under Lock & Key. I appreciate the magazine and the helpful information inside. I did have a small problem at first with the mailroom here, who at first withheld the magazine, for 7 days claiming pages 1 and 5 advocates prison disruption and strike.

After much prayer and filing a grievance, seven days later the mailroom here gave your magazine to me.

As you can see, ULK #63 has been denied on the extremely vague grounds that somebody supports us in our endeavors. And, the newly revised I-154 Form doesn't appear to give us the opportunity to appeal their decision to deny incoming publications, such as yours.

I will continue to hammer away at these bitches with Step 1's and 2's for every single petty infraction they commit. Someone's gotta do it until something, somewhere, gives. Might as well be me.

The following is an appeal against the infringement of my rights by the above specified state prison unit and it’s M.S.C.P. (mail system coordinating panel) which has denied my July/August 2016 issue No 51 of Under Lock and Key.

Said denial came on or about: 30 August 2016 by the TDCJ – CID’s MSCP department who failed to notify me of the interception and denial at that time, rather than ½ ma month later, of its arrival via the United States Postal Service.

When I was finally informed, it was half a month after TDCJ-MSCP received, then denied it. Their supposed reason for denial was that “The issue on page one promotes work stoppage – and prison disruption.”

On the other hand, should one or more of the states captives, simply decided, of their own free will, not to work with no prompting by teaching one of his supposed constitutionally protected rights? What or whom else is and will be the party to blame? And for peacefully assembling to petition the states government for a redress of grievances. How else could or would the states prison injustice justify the mistreatment of its prisoners in the denial of our due process and right to be secure in our both persons and papers.

Finally, it is obvious that "if" one choses to participate in the peaceful assembling to petition the states government? It is denied. However, TDCJ-CID clearly has no problem in demanding of its captives to: work or labor, free of payment (or get a disciplinary report) rather than hands on physical job training, as well as, money to sufficiently learn to manage money for a successful rehabilitation and transition into the working class of citizens. Who is monitoring and censoring that? Is the state and it's employees above justice?

I request that the July/August 2016 issue of No. 51 of Under Lock and Key be removed from the state-wide banning. And said publication is rerouted to its proper recipient for whom they were sent to by mail.

Grievance response: The issue presented is not grievable
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