Tag: Prison Mail
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How To Help Incarcerated Loved Ones This Holiday Season
This holiday season is going to be hard on your incarcerated loved ones. But there are a lot of different ways you can help.
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Explainer: What is Jail Mail?
While every facility’s rules are different, this article provides a good overview of what “jail mail” rules usually look like.
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What’s the Difference Between General Mail and Legal Mail in Prison?
There are two types of mail in prison: general and special mail. Officers conduct a visual inspection of all mail for contraband.
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BOP’s Transition to Scanning Prison Mail Raises Privacy Concerns
BOP’s transition to scanning prison mail and sending original mail and pictures to incarcerated people raises privacy concerns.
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Do the Guards Read Your Mail in Federal Prisons?
When you go to prison, you lose a lot of your privacy, including in your communications, but do guards read prisoner mail?