Correspondence

Rules for Inmate correspondence:

• Only post cards will be sent or received (excluding legal mail and money orders)

• Outgoing correspondence will have correct return address (inmate first and last name, Bates County Law Enforcement Center, P.O. Box 60, Butler MO, 64730)

• Outgoing post cards will have proper delivery address (recipient's first and last name and correct street address)

• No post cards will be sent or received with inappropriate signs, pictures, or phrases on them

• Indigent inmates will receive 2 post cards per week

• Legal mail will be inspected for contraband and sealed or opened in presence of inmate

• Inmates who have been released or incarcerated at another facility will have mail returned to sender

• Inmates will not correspond with inmates held in this facility at the same time (unless written permission is granted by Jail Administrator)

• Inmates will not send or receive correspondence with inmates from other treatment, correctional, prison, or jail facilities (unless written permission is granted by Jail Administrator)

• Faxes will not be accepted

• Packages will not be accepted by this facility