Federal Prisoners Get Email

It wasn't too long ago - April or May this year - that (at least some) federal prisoners got the use of email. You could email them from your own email account to a prison email address. Early September, people corresponding with prisoners were told that a new system would be in place.

Corrlinks arrived this past week. I'm sure it gives the prisons much more control over incoming and outgoing email. But for someone outside it means another email to check to see if her prisoner friend sent something. Now the person has to check Corrlinks.

This is much faster than snail mail, and it also means that the prisons can scan for whatever words they think they should check on. Probably it will help them find code words if they show up more often than they should in normal conversation. Or maybe I'm giving them too much credit.

Here's a link to the Corrlinks FAQs.