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I could be wrong, but doesn’t that violate the supremacy clause, since opening letters is a federal offense?

• thecyborganizer 4y ago
  18 USC 1702 only applies if you are opening someone else's mail because you want to "obstruct the correspondence, or to pry into the business or secrets of another". Presumably the courts have determined that this does not apply to prison officials opening mail addressed to prisoners.