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Inmates’ E-Mails With Their Attorneys: Off-Limits For The Government?, Amelia H. Barry
Inmates’ E-Mails With Their Attorneys: Off-Limits For The Government?, Amelia H. Barry
Catholic University Law Review
The attorney-client privilege is vital to inmates who otherwise have limited opportunities for private communications in prison. Traditionally, inmates have only been able to communicate with their attorneys via in-person visits, phone calls, and mailed letters. As federal inmates have begun using e-mail to converse with their attorneys, courts have had to determine if these conversations are protected by the attorney-client privilege. This Comment discusses courts’ approaches to this question, many of which have found that inmates’ e-mail communications with their attorneys are not privileged because by using the federal prison e-mail system, which warns users that conversations can be …