In 2010, the Ventura County Sheriff's Department approved a measure that restricted the types of mail that can come into the county jails.
Namely, letters and cards were out- and postcards were in.
The reason for this, according to sources within the corrections department, was their wanting to take a proactive approach to restricting contraband. People on the outside were starting to get a little too creative in terms of how they were smuggling drugs into the facility and the sheriff's department felt a postcard only policy would help thwart that.
But thanks to the recent lawsuit filed by Prison Legal News, …
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