Kingston Penitentiary officials, citing regulations that keep prisoners’ names and locations secret, seized Toronto Star letters mailed to dozens of inmates that request information and opinions on their lives within the 19th-century maximum security facility that is slated for closure.
The Star letters, inspired by California-based media group Coleman-Rayner that wrote to death-row inmates across the United States, were intercepted during the summer “for privacy reasons,” said Michele Vermette, assistant warden, management services, at Kingston Penitentiary.
