 Forwarding Prisoner Mail/Change of Address
Procedure H: Forwarding Prisoner Mail/Change of Address
All changes of the prisoner’s home address shall be entered into the database and placed in the prisoner’s Administrative Record and Case Management Record.
During the release planning process, the prisoner shall be asked to provide the prisoner’s home address or other forwarding address.
If mail is received for a transferred prisoner, the mail shall be forwarded to the receiving facility for ninety (90) days. When the ninety (90) day period has expired, the mail shall then be returned to the sender. If mail is received for a former prisoner, the mail shall be forwarded to the last known home address or other forwarding address for ninety (90) days. If no forwarding address exists or the ninety (90) day period has expired, the mail shall be returned to the sender.
If mail is received for a deceased prisoner, the mail shall be returned to sender.
If mail is received for an escaped prisoner, the mail shall be forwarded unopened to the facility Correctional Investigator, or other designated staff.
__________________ The pessimist complains about the wind;
the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward
Last edited by Skye; 03-05-2008 at 12:04 AM.
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