Confidential correspondence from inmates to lawyers and the courts found to maintain been opened in half of cases investigated Prisoners confidential legal letters to and from their lawyers and the courts maintain been wrongly opened by prison staff in half of cases investigated by the prisons ombudsman in the past year.
The prisons and probation ombudsman,Nigel Newcomen, carried out 32 official investigations into complaints about the handling of confidential correspondence with prisoners in England and Wales, and found in half of them private legal letters to and from prisoners had been in opened by mistake by prison staff.
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Source: theguardian.com