ST. PAUL — With the planned closing of the Stillwater prison, the Minnesota Department of Corrections has notified inmates they need to downsize their storage bins — and for some that means picking between their legal documents and personal belongings, advocacy groups said Monday, Aug. 11.

The DOC is also decreasing the amount of electronic storage space for legal and academic documents for people who are imprisoned throughout the state.

“There is a concerted assault on people-in-prisons’ ability to access their due process rights in court, … prove their innocence, address conditions,” said David Boehnke, co-executive director of Minnesota Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC), which organized Monday’s news conference to sound the alarm.

The DOC said in a Monday statement tha

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