Opinion ID: 201036
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Heading: SAMs Imposed on Reid

Text: 10 In February 2002, approximately two months after Flight 63 landed in Boston, the Attorney General authorized the USMS to issue SAMs regulating Reid's pre-trial confinement. Cf. 28 C.F.R. § 501.3(f) (allowing branches of the Justice Department other than the Bureau of Prisons to issue SAMs for persons in their custody). After the district court objected to the initial version of Reid's SAMs, see United States v. Reid, 214 F.Supp.2d 84, 92 (D.Mass.2002), a new version was issued on June 19, 2002. It was under the June 2002 SAMs that the USMS restricted Reid's access to Time magazine. 11 The June 2002 SAMs purported to control all of Reid's written and recorded communications, including his receipt of written materials. Under the caption Inmate Communications Prohibitions, the document provided: 12 The inmate is prohibited from passing or receiving any written or recorded communications to or from any other inmate, visitor, or anyone else except as outlined and allowed by this document. 13 The SAMs then set forth detailed rules governing Reid's access to visitors, telephone calls, and legal, consular, and non-legal mail. Reid's Time subscription qualified as incoming non-legal mail: 14 (Non-legal/Non-consular) Mail — Any mail not clearly and properly addressed to/from the inmate's attorney and marked privileged, or consular mail (incoming or outgoing): 15 i. Copied — Shall be copied (including the surface of the envelope) by the warden, or his/her designee, of the facility in which the inmate is housed. 16 ii. Forwarded — Shall be forwarded, in copy form, to the location designated by the FBI. 17 . . . 18 iv. Mail Seizure — If outgoing/incoming mail is determined by USMS or FBI to contain overt or covert discussions of or requests for illegal activities, the soliciting or encouraging of acts of violence or terrorism, or actual or attempted circumvention of SAM, the mail shall not be delivered/forwarded. The inmate shall be notified in writing of the seizure of any mail. 19 These were the only provisions in the June 2002 SAMs pertaining to Reid's Time subscription.