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Authorized Inmate Pr
Admissible Reading Material
Question | Answer |
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Inmates shall be permitted to receive publications | except when the publication is found to be detrimental to the security, order or disciplinary or rehabilitative interests |
Inmates shall be permitted to receive publications | except when the publication is found to be detrimental to the security, order or disciplinary or rehabilitative interests |
Publications shall be rejected | when one of the following criteria is met |
It depicts or describes procedures for the construction of or use of weapons | ammunition, bombs, chemical agents, or incendiary devices |
It depicts, encourages, or describes methods of escape | from correctional facilities or contains blueprints, drawings or similar descriptions of DOC facilities or institutions |
or includes road maps that can facilitate escape | from correctional facilities |
It depicts or describes procedures for the brewing of alcoholic beverage | or the manufacture of drugs or other intoxicants |
It is written | in code |
It depicts, describes or encourages activities | which may lead to the use of physical violence or group disruption |
It encourages or instructs in the commission | of criminal activity |
It pictorially depicts less than completely and opaquely covered (a) human genitals | or pubic regions, or (b) human buttocks, or (c) human female breasts below a point immediately above the top of the areola |
or depicts human male genitals in a discernibly aroused state | even if completely and opaquely covered |
It pictorially depicts sexually explicit/implicit exhibitions | or behavior as follows |
Actual or simulated sexual intercourse | Sexual bestiality |
Masturbation | Sadomasochistic abuse |
Any act or conduct which constitutes sexual battery | or simulates that sexual battery is being or will be committed |
Any questions concerning the definition or application of this section | will be referred to the appropriate administrative sergeant as indicated below |
Jails Division | Administrative Property Sergeant |
Prisons Division | MCC –Classification Sergeant |
Prisons Division | CTC – Security /Services Sergeant |
Subscriptions | and Possession |
Inmates may receive daily, weekly, or monthly periodicals | or publications by subscription only |
Subscriptions to periodicals or publications shall be sent directly | from the publisher only |
Inmates subscribe to periodicals or publications | at their own risk and expense |
Inmates will not be reimbursed by the Department of Corrections | for materials which are rejected |
Inmates shall be prohibited from posting or otherwise displaying any pictures | or portions of books or publications |
Such activity will subject the inmate to disciplinary action | and will cause the posted or displayed material to be confiscated as contraband |