Does InmateAid Read the Letters You Send to Inmates?

No. InmateAid does not read your letters. The volume of mail processed every day is handled in bulk by machine, and there is no staff review of letter content on our end. Your words go from your keyboard to the printer to the envelope without anyone at InmateAid reading them.

What does happen after the letter leaves our hands is a different matter. Every piece of incoming mail at a correctional facility is opened and inspected by mail room staff. That is standard practice across every jail, prison, and detention center in the country and has nothing to do with InmateAid. Staff read incoming mail for security reasons, looking for content that might facilitate criminal activity, convey information between co-defendants or inmates at other facilities, or otherwise violate the facility's mail policies.

Write your letter knowing that the mail room will see it. InmateAid will not.