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      "id": 104030,
      "date": "2001-11-27",
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      "title": "Monitoring Inmate-Attorney Communications: Sixth Amendment Implications",
      "summary": "Citing the need to ensure that individuals in federal custody are not able to facilitate acts of\nterrorism\nthrough conversations with an attorney, the Department of Justice's Bureau of Prisons instituted an\ninterim rule on October 30, 2001, authorizing the monitoring of attorney-client communications when\nthe Attorney General determines that reasonable suspicion exists to believe that such communications\nmight facilitate acts of violence or terrorism. Such monitoring could include taping and electronic\nsurveillance. This report provides an overview of the provisions of the interim rule, as well as a brief\nsynopsis of Sixth Amendment implications regarding intentional intrusion into the attorney-client\nrelationship.",
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