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Chapter 5 – Adult Custody and Security Operations

Article 41 – Inmate Mail

Revised June 5, 2017

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54010.8.1 Items Enclosed in Incoming First Class Mail

  • In addition to the written word, such as letters, internet downloads, newspaper clippings, religious pamphlets or leaflets, or photocopies of written words, etc., First Class Mail can have the following items enclosed:

    • Photographs.

    • Calendars.

    • Blank greeting cards (No 3-dimensional attachments or stamps).

    • Postage embossed envelopes, maximum of forty.

    • Blank envelopes.

    • Writing paper/tablets (white or yellow lined only – no cotton paper).

    • Typing paper (no cotton paper).

    • Legal paper; to include colored paper required by court (no cotton Paper).

    • Children’s drawings.

    • Forty postage stamps (unless there is a rate change; then the intent is forty stamps at the old rate and forty stamps at the amount needed to equal the new rate). Personalized postage stamps will not be accepted.

  • The weight limits for First Class Mail are outlined in DOMDepartment Operations Manual Section 54010.4. The size and quantity of items listed above is limited per DOMDepartment Operations Manual, Chapter 5, Article 43, Inmate Property.

  • Inmates may receive photographs in First Class mail in accordance with the exception of the following:

    • All photographs must comply with the CCRCalifornia Code of Regulations Section 3006, and DOMDepartment Operations Manual Section 54010.14.

    • Amount and size shall not exceed allowances specified in DOMDepartment Operations Manual, Chapter 5, Article 43, Inmate Property.

    • Photo albums (available through the canteen and the Vendor Package Program).

    • Photographs with attached backing are not permitted.

    • Photographs framed in such a manner that they cannot be adequately searched are not permitted.

    • Poloroid photographs are not allowed.

    • Negatives are not allowed.

    • Slides are not allowed.

  • Any unacceptable mail shall be immediately returned to sender with the envelope annotated “Unauthorized Mail, Return to Sender.” Inmates shall be notified pursuant to CCRCalifornia Code of Regulations Section 3136.