Non-Privileged Correspondence can be categorized by whether the document you are sending is non-privileged inmate correspondence, transactional mail or official documents. Please select what category of non-privileged mail you are sending and follow the corresponding instructions below:
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Non-Privileged Inmate Correspondence must must be addressed and sent to the Department’s contracted central incoming inmate mail processing center. Mail must be addressed as follows:
Smart Communications/PA DOC
Inmate Name/Inmate Number
Institution Name
P.O. Box 33028
St. Petersburg, FL 33733
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Transactional Mail (non-privileged mail requiring an original to be signed by the inmate in order to carry out a transaction, i.e., contractual documentation, title/deed transfer documentation, etc.) must be sent directly to the Business Office at the institution where the inmate is located and must be addressed as follows:
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Official Documents are not not to be possessed, received or retained by inmates. Official documents include, but are not limited to cashier’s checks or original copies of official documents such as driver’s license, birth certificate, social security cards, etc. Such documents must be sent directly to the Business Office at the institution where the inmate is located and must be addressed as follows:
Privileged Inmate Correspondence
Hand-Delivered Incoming Privileged Correspondence
- Hand-delivered Incoming Privileged Correspondence may be delivered by an inmate’s attorney or authorized representative to the facility where the inmate is housed when such delivery of documents is not made as part of a visit. The delivery of documents must be made during the facility’s normal business days and business hours unless permission has been granted in advance by the Facility Manager/designee.
- The envelope containing privileged correspondence must contain the
Law Office name and address of record as the return address; the
inmate’s name and inmate number;
Attorney Control Number and appropriate
Time Code.
Original Documents
- The Department recently changed its privileged correspondence policy to allow attorneys to send original, non-third party, documents to their clients as outlined above. Previously, privileged correspondence was photocopied by the Department in the presence of the inmate. Legal organizations that have collected original documents from their clients and who have not returned or provided such documents to their clients during the period that the Department’s prior policy was in effect will be permitted to return original documents to their clients on or before July 7, 2019. Requests to facilitate such return of documents should be sent to:
RA-CRatrnycntrlnum@pa.gov
- The envelope containing privileged correspondence must contain the
Law Office name and address of record as the return address;
the inmate’s name and inmate number;
Attorney Control Number and appropriate
Time Code.
For more details, please
read the full policy pertaining to inmate mail.
More details coming soon.
More details coming soon.