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CHAPTER 518 AN ACT AUTHORIZING PRISONERS TO MAIL LETTERS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Chapter 127 of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section 87, as appearing in the 1984 Official Edition, and inserting in place thereof the following section:-

Section 87. Every inmate of a correctional institution or any other penal institution in the commonwealth shall have the right to write letters and deposit them, sealed, in locked letter boxes. All letters so deposited shall be conveyed to federal postal authorities for delivery.

Passed without Governor's Signature