My letter to Lauren

[Soundwave]

After returning from a tragic afternoon in New London, I recieved a letter from the York Correctional Facility. My immediate thought was that Lauren had receieved the postcard I had written a few weeks ago. I opened to find a form from the correctional facility that said that my letter was returned because "It depicts, describes, or encourages activities which may lead to the use of physical violence or group disruption." The letter also noted that I was an unauthorized correspondent, and is signed with an illegible first name only.

The text on the postcard is hardly that - "Lauren, Your strength is inspirational. Look forward to having you home again, Julia." Here is what the postcard itself looked like:



My guess is that this is their excuse for returning it. I am going to write the same thing on a different postcard, and see if I get a similar response. I am also going to call and ask what it would take to become an "authorized correspondent".

Has anyone else receieved a letter like this?

[Kat Kanning]

That's funny, as the only violence it could depict is violence by the state.

[error]

Yes, exposing the state for what it is could definitely be "disruptive."

[Barterer]

"It depicts, describes, or encourages activities which may lead to the use of physical violence or group disruption."

What "group" did they intend to show it to, that would be disrupted?  Are they implying that Lauren would turn violent at the sight of the postcard, or show it to others that would, or that the guards would? Seems pretty paranoid, not allowing an accurate depiction of prison life in a prison.

Well if there's a bright side to be found anywhere, it's that they bothered to return the postcard, meaning that our other messages were probably delivered instead of just thrown out. Must've gotten them past the censors, and before we were required to register as "authorized correspondents" 

[Dave Ridley]

one thing that has worked for me with minimum effort and zero returns to sender...

Just copy and paste some stuff you wrote on the web forums and send printouts of that to her.