{"id":19593,"date":"2015-11-19T10:17:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T15:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19593"},"modified":"2015-11-19T10:17:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T15:17:53","slug":"npr-when-prisoners-email-their-lawyers-its-often-not-confidential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19593","title":{"rendered":"NPR: When Prisoners Email Their Lawyers, It&#8217;s Often Not Confidential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NPR: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/alltechconsidered\/2015\/11\/18\/456496859\/when-prisoners-email-their-lawyers-its-often-not-confidential\">When Prisoners Email Their Lawyers, It&#8217;s Often Not Confidential<\/a> by Joel Rose:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At least once a week, federal defender Deirdre von Dornum travels across Brooklyn to meet with her incarcerated clients. The round trip takes three hours, on a good day.<\/p>\n<p>First von Dornum rides the subway. Then she walks half a mile to the Metropolitan Detention Center, a pair of nondescript high-rise buildings on the Brooklyn waterfront. At this point, she still has to wait \u2014 sometimes for hours \u2014 for guards to bring her client down from his cell.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s time that I&#8217;m not able to spend on other portions of the case,&#8221; says von Dornum. &#8220;I have to use the hours to travel back and forth to the jail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But as cumbersome as this is, defense lawyers say it&#8217;s often the only way to talk with their clients that is both timely and confidential. Phone conversations with attorneys are private, but there aren&#8217;t always enough phones. The post office is too slow. Many federal inmates have access to email. But defense attorneys say they don&#8217;t trust it, because prosecutors have used those emails as evidence in court. Now defense lawyers and elected officials want to change that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR: When Prisoners Email Their Lawyers, It&#8217;s Often Not Confidential by Joel Rose:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19594,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19593\/revisions\/19594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}