Encryption should be mandatory for all sensitive data if it's not encrypted it's public.
However judges allowing the emails to be read sounds really stupid to me it's obviously protected by the attorney-client privilege.
Most obvious breaches in law are motivated by prosecutors as a lack of staff or convenience these days.
I don't care how understaffed you are or how inconvenient it is that is the law and you have to follow it or at least that's how it should be but apparently judges can choose which laws they want to follow.
PGP would be great in this situation, your attorney could give you a USB stick with the public and private keys encrypted by a password of your choice and you could use it to send messages to him.
Even if the warden or guards were to confiscate the USB stick they still wouldn't be able to decrypt the messages without the password which is protected by law because it's something only you know.
And because of how PGP works the messages sent by you to your attorney can only be decrypted by his private key. Once encrypted even you can't decrypt them anymore since you are using his public key to encrypt the message.
However judges allowing the emails to be read sounds really stupid to me it's obviously protected by the attorney-client privilege.
Most obvious breaches in law are motivated by prosecutors as a lack of staff or convenience these days.
I don't care how understaffed you are or how inconvenient it is that is the law and you have to follow it or at least that's how it should be but apparently judges can choose which laws they want to follow.
PGP would be great in this situation, your attorney could give you a USB stick with the public and private keys encrypted by a password of your choice and you could use it to send messages to him.
Even if the warden or guards were to confiscate the USB stick they still wouldn't be able to decrypt the messages without the password which is protected by law because it's something only you know.
And because of how PGP works the messages sent by you to your attorney can only be decrypted by his private key. Once encrypted even you can't decrypt them anymore since you are using his public key to encrypt the message.