Perspective
Nov. 4, 2015
Inmate emails deserve privacy
A law proposed in Congress last week aims to limit federal prosecutors' ability to read inmate emails. By Laurie L. Levenson
Laurie L. Levenson
Professor of Law
Loyola Law School
criminal law
919 Albany St
Los Angeles , CA 90015
Phone: (213) 736-1149
Fax: (213) 380-3769
Email: laurie.levenson@lls.edu
UCLA Law School
Laurie is founding director of Loyola's Project for the Innocent and David W. Burcham chair in ethical advocacy.
The pendulum appears to be swinging. For the last 15 years, and particularly at the height of the war on terrorism, the government demanded the right to monitor communications between inmates and their lawyers. In California, as well as elsewhere in the nation, phone conversations by inmates and outside persons were regularly monitored or recorded. Inmates were advised of this policy and, therefore, made calls, including to ...
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