September 6th, 2005

Jeffrey A. Beard, Ph.D.

Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

2520 Lisburn Road, P.O. Box 598

Camp Hill, Pennsylvania 17001-0598

...The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man, and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty...

--Article 1, Section 7, Declaration Of Rights, Constitution of Pennsylvania

Dear Mr. Jeffrey A. Beard, Ph.D.;

Respectfully, I am Pennsylvania Death Row inmate Reginald S. Lewis, Number AY2902. In good faith this letter addresses claims that officials at SCI-Graterford, acting in concert with other known or unknown employees in the Central office of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, continue to violate First, Sixth, Eight, and Fourteenth Amendment rights, and policy number DC-ADM 803 .Inmate Mail and Incoming Publications,. and DC-ADM 001, including state and federal laws by imposing a "Mail Watch" by illegally copying, logging, monitoring, distributing, and withholding my outgoing and incoming mail in the furtherance of an ongoing conspiracy to disrupt, sabotage, and cut off my communications from the outside world solely because I am a gifted Black American Writer.

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