Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General Evaluation and Inspections Division, The Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Monitoring of Mail for High-Risk Inmates, September 2006, Report Number I-2006-009 (122 pages, PDF).
“The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) conducted this review to evaluate how effectively the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) prevents terrorist and other high-risk inmates from using the mail to continue or encourage criminal behavior, threaten the public, or compromise national security. This issue received widespread public attention in March 2005 when media reports disclosed that three convicted terrorists incarcerated at the BOP’s Administrative Maximum (ADX) penitentiary in Florence, Colorado, for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center wrote approximately 90 letters to Islamic extremists between 2002 and 2004….We found that the BOP has not effectively monitored the mail of terrorist and other high-risk inmates. Our review determined that the BOP’s monitoring of inmate mail is deficient in several respects…”
