New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Chapter 103 - COMMUNITY PROGRAMS
Subchapter 7 - MAIL: CORRESPONDENCE, LEGAL CORRESPONDENCE, PUBLICATIONS, AND PACKAGES FOR JUVENILES RESIDING IN RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY HOMES
Section 13:103-7.24 - Disapproved correspondence

Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 13:103-7.24

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024

(a) Any correspondence to or from a juvenile may be withheld in the mailroom or taken from a juvenile's possession if it falls within one of the following categories:

1. The correspondence contains material that is detrimental to the security and/or order of the residential community home because it incites violence based upon race, religion, creed, or nationality and a reasonable inference can be drawn, based upon the experience and professional expertise of correctional administrators, that it may result in the outbreak of violence within the facility;

2. The correspondence contains information regarding:
i. The manufacture of explosives;

ii. The manufacture of weapons;

iii. The manufacture of controlled dangerous substances;

iv. Escape plans;

v. Lock picking or locking devices; or

vi. Anything that might pose a threat to the security or orderly operation of the residential community home;

3. The correspondence contains information that appears to be written in code;

4. The correspondence contains information concerning activities within or outside the residential community home that would be subject to criminal prosecution under the laws of New Jersey or the United States;

5. The correspondence incites violence or destructive or disruptive behavior toward:
i. Law enforcement officers;

ii. Commission or contract vendor personnel or other staff;

iii. Community program juveniles, visitors, and/or volunteers; or

iv. Community program activities, programs, or procedures; or

6. The correspondence contains material which, based upon the experience and professional expertise of correctional administrators and judged in the context of a residential community home and its paramount interest in security, order and rehabilitation:
i. Taken as a whole, appeals to a prurient interest in sex;

ii. Lacks, as a whole, serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value; and

iii. Depicts, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct including patently offensive representations or descriptions of ultimate sexual acts, masturbation, excretory functions, lewd exhibition of the genitals, sadism, or masochism.

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