From: ghost_of_morphy@hotmail.com   
      
   On 02 Nov 2003 00:34:40 GMT, stewartconnor@aol.com (Stewart Connor)   
   wrote:   
      
   >>What is a 'kite'....?   
   >   
   >a note that a prisoner tries with varying degrees of success to get from his   
   >confined position(in the controlled chess game of prison) to anyone else.   
   >So a letter in the U.S. mail can be considered to be a kite as well since   
   >guards in general have access to the mail the prisoners try to send out of the   
   >prison.   
   >(Watch Murphy's law try to deny this)   
      
   I aim to please, Stewiie.   
      
   First of all, we don't use the term "kite" down here, so I can neither   
   verify nor deny Stewie's definition.   
      
   As far as access to the mail goes, inmates who are not locked down   
   place their own mail in mailboxes.  The mail is picked up by DOC   
   employees (who are not guards, btw) and taken to our central post   
   office, from which it is taken to the federal post office and mailed.   
   Outgoing mail is generally not inspected unless there are special   
   circumstances, in which case an Internal Audit investigator is   
   empowered to inspect it.   
      
   On the other hand, inmates in lock down units do not have access to   
   the locked mailboxes and must intrust their letters to the security   
   staff to mail them.  So we can say that Stewie is correct about lock   
   down inmates where I am, but incorrect about general population   
   inmates.   
      
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