Chapter 5 – Adult Custody and Security Operations

54010.2 Packages

• With the exception of parole clothes and third-party special purchase health care appliances, incarcerated persons shall not be allowed to receive packages directly from personal correspondents. Packages containing parole clothes or third-party special purchase medical assistive devices must be clearly marked with either “parole clothes” or “health care appliance” on the outside of the package. Personal correspondents do not include the courts, law firms, county, state and federal agencies, publishers, bookstores, book distributors, religious organizations, etc.

• All incoming packages, regardless of their contents or to whom they are addressed, shall be put through an x-ray machine to prevent the introduction of contraband into the institution.

• All packages, excluding publication-only packages as set forth in CCRCalifornia Code of Regulations Title 15 Section 3147(c)(4), received in the mailroom that are addressed to an incarcerated person shall be processed through Receiving and Release where they will be searched, inventoried, and issued to the incarcerated person.

• All appropriately addressed mail, including packages, shall either be delivered to the incarcerated person, or forwarded per the CCRCalifornia Code of Regulations Title 15 Subsection 3133(f).