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Thursday, May 2, 2024 | Back issues
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No card for prisoner

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Court of Appeals upheld the portion of a lower court ruling that determined an inmate may not receive the birthday card his daughter wrote to him with a glitter pen because glitter can allegedly disguise “illicit substances.”

Read the ruling here.

Categories / Appeals, Briefs, Criminal

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