Inmate Correspondence

Correspondence

Inmates are permitted to send and receive letters. Letters mailed to inmates shall be no larger than 12" by 16". General mail will be mailed to an outside source, this will be scanned into an electronic system. The scanned mail will be approved or denied by mailroom personnel. Once the mail is approved, it will be available on the inmate’s tablet. Legal mail will continue to be mailed to 100 North Lamar Street, Fort Worth, TX 76196.

• Inmates may purchase writing supplies (paper, envelopes, pens, and stamps) from inmate commissary. Writing supplies are furnished to indigent inmates.
• The only item which may be enclosed with correspondence mailed to an inmate is 10 or less unframed photographs no larger than 4" by 6".
• Any contraband items received will be returned to sender.
• New, soft-backed books must be shipped directly from an established publisher. Only packages shipped via UPS or United States Postal Service (USPS) will be accepted. Packages from third party couriers will not be accepted (Amazon uses these couriers, so Amazon packages will not be accepted). Magazines and cross-word puzzle books must be a subscription from a publisher. We will no longer accept books or magazines from a distributor, such as Barnes and Noble. If there is any concern for the health, safety, and well-being of inmates, the books will be returned to sender.
• All regular inmate postal mail (postcards, letters, greeting cards, etc.) will be scanned into the system and available to the inmates to view their postal mail via mobile electronic devices.
• BOOKS, MAGAZINES, or POSTAL MONEY ORDERS / WESTERN UNION MONEY ORDER ONLY. Books, magazines, money orders for deposit to an inmate’s money account will continue to be processed at the jail, and senders should continue to use the current jail address: 100 North Lamar Street, Fort Worth, TX 76196. The same facility rules apply. Any personal mail (postcards, letters, greeting cards, etc.) received at the jail will be stamped Return to Sender, with instructions to resend it to the new address.
• The jail is responsible only for mail delivered by the U.S. Postal Service. All tracer actions on lost mail must be referred directly to the post office by the sender.
• Friends and Family members are encouraged to subscribe to MailGuard Tracker. Sign up for a free account (www.mailguardtracker.com) and view delivery status, receive notifications if your mail is rejected, and download copies of mail that has been received and processed.

Items prohibited from being received through the mail are, but are not limited to, the following:

• Any items not lawfully obtained or possessed under terms outlined in the Texas Penal Code are considered illegal material.
• Any item determined to contain, distributes, or displays inappropriate subject matter or images depicting physical violence, gruesome subject matter, obscene photographs, drawings or similar visual representation or other obscene material that promotes simulated sexual intercourse, deviate sexual intercourse, sexual bestiality, or any lewd exhibition of male or female genitals.
• Newspapers or magazines brought to the jail by individuals will not be accepted.
• Mail identified as legal mail but contains non-legal material.
• Items containing information or the depiction of the manufacture or likeness of explosives, weapons, or drugs.
• Material that a reasonable person could construe as written solely for the purpose of communicating information designed to achieve the breakdown of prisoners through inmate disruption, such as strikes, riots, or escapes.
• Material that leads to a specific factual determination that the material is detrimental to a prisoner’s rehabilitation because it encourages deviant sexual behavior.

Address letters to an inmate as follows: