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I see a little good advice and a lot of bad.
1. These guys before release try to establish relationships for their parole hearings to show they will integrate into society, and to have someone to fleece.
2. You are / will be played.
3. I would report this to police to get it on record. Conversly you could ignore it and hope it was a mass mailer and he moves on to another sucker.
4. If another letter or any contact occurs, definately go to police. Get a restraining order against harrassment, or whatever your state calls it.
5. Got a gun? If not get one, learn to use it, keep it handy. If he shows up next year you will know what to do and how to do it.
6. Also employ reasonable security. Alarm, cameras, panic key fob as you feel necessary.
7. Watch who's following you home. If there's another car behind you don't pull into the garage. Drive down a different street then around the block. If they were still there I'd drive on out of the neighborhood and take appropriate action.
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Originally Posted by BirdieBelle
So I asked a colleague with some experience in this area, and she said the correctional facility has no legal authority to stop an inmate from sending mail.
If other corrections officials some here are familiar with have told an inmate to stop, that is that official's personal choice, but one that exceeds their legal authority, especially if the letter contained nothing illegal.
So again, returning the letter or better yet ignoring it is the best choice OP.
That's not true, so I'm not really sure what experience the person had.
An inmate will not be allowed to send mail to a recipient who has contacted the prison and asked that the correspondence cease.
Also, most prisons have rules that allow an offender to only send a few letters out per week, like 7 or so, so it's unlikely an inmate would send something out scattershot.
That link says a person who wants to contact the prison and tell them they don't want to receive mail from an inmate should do so, but it doesn't say anything about the prison staff's legal authority to stop an inmate from sending mail.
Someone wrote me privately that inmates have to put their # on all correspondence and there is a way to see who they are, what their crimes are and when they get out.
I am a little nervous about looking that up, but there is a number on the correspondence.
Take the letter to post office and stamp on it - "return to sender."
"Recipient unknown."
Case solved.
Our business used to be the State office of Corrections Base. On a few occassions we had parolee's stop in and assume we were that office. Mind you our door and our window Clearly stated a Networking company.
If they couldn't read I figure they couldn't write either.
That's creepy, I would sell my house and move. Write on the envelope return to sender and don't open any more mail from the prison. Refuse to receive any mail from them and it will return back to him as undeliverable.
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